Speaker 1: Welcome to Katy r h Garden Line with skimp Rickard.
Speaker 2: It's crazy trip just watching as well, so.
Speaker 1: Many good things to super busy.
Speaker 3: Not a sorry gas the sun beamon between Well, good
Speaker 3: morning and welcome to garden Line. We are happy you're
Speaker 3: here today and looking forward to talking gardening. That's what
Speaker 3: we do, and we talk about the things that you're
Speaker 3: interested in. I know I can say a lot of
Speaker 3: comments based on questions I get during the week. I've
Speaker 3: certainly been through this a few seasons myself, so I
Speaker 3: kind of know the things we're dealing with here. But
Speaker 3: at the same time, what's happened in your yard? Do
Speaker 3: you have a question about your lawn, your trees, your flowers,
Speaker 3: your herbs, your vegetable garden or even house plants. What
Speaker 3: is of interest to you. We're here to help with that.
Speaker 3: I always like to say that gardening is a fun hobby,
Speaker 3: and it should be and we shouldn't have to worry
Speaker 3: about whether we're going to fail at gardening or not.
Speaker 3: You don't fail at gardening. You can only give up,
Speaker 3: which I hope you don't do. So, in other words,
Speaker 3: you just try it again. Nature throws us a curve
Speaker 3: every year. I mean this year it was two storms
Speaker 3: too early really to be honest, and it's been a doozy.
Speaker 3: Last summer was incredible drought and heat. We so far,
Speaker 3: knock on wood, have not experienced that this summer. But
Speaker 3: that's how nature is. You never know. It can change
Speaker 3: in a minute, and as gardeners, we just learned how
Speaker 3: to ride with it. We know how to respond to things,
Speaker 3: We know how to water gardens when it doesn't rain.
Speaker 3: We are able to choose plants that want to grow
Speaker 3: here in Southeast Texas and also choose plants that are
Speaker 3: going to be very resilient when it comes to pests
Speaker 3: and diseases and droughts and other things like that. And
Speaker 3: that's kind of how we put the whole thing together.
Speaker 3: I like to say that here on Garden Line, we
Speaker 3: want to help you have a bountiful garden and a
Speaker 3: beautiful landscape. That is the goal, a bountiful garden and
Speaker 3: a very very beautiful landscape. And for example, the arbor Gate,
Speaker 3: they are all about the same thing. You know, you
Speaker 3: go out to the arbor Gate and talk about Beverly
Speaker 3: and Kennon and the whole team out there, and they
Speaker 3: have got the advice you need. They've got the plants
Speaker 3: you need. They it's just a complete package. And if
Speaker 3: you haven't been out there in a while, you need
Speaker 3: to go. They're off on twenty nine to twenty just
Speaker 3: to the west of tom Ball, just a little distance
Speaker 3: to the west. And the way to park there though,
Speaker 3: is something that if you haven't heard me say it before,
Speaker 3: I almost say it again. You turn down Trish Road,
Speaker 3: which it is a loop that goes behind Arburgate. So
Speaker 3: whichever way you're coming to Arburgate, when you see Trishel,
Speaker 3: you turn turn down that road, go behind Arburgate. And
Speaker 3: if you get to Arburgate and you didn't see it,
Speaker 3: well there's gonna be another Trishel Road right after that
Speaker 3: coming back in because it is a loop behind it.
Speaker 3: The parking lot in the back is all weather. I
Speaker 3: mean it can range six inches and that thing is
Speaker 3: easy to drive on, easy to walk on, and takes
Speaker 3: you right on in there. And when you get in,
Speaker 3: what you're going to find is a wonderland of all
Speaker 3: kinds of plants. Every time I go there, I see
Speaker 3: plants I'd never even grown before, never even seen before,
Speaker 3: because they're always coming up with new things. They're always
Speaker 3: bringing in new things and their experience helps you to
Speaker 3: have success. So you walk in and you go, you
Speaker 3: know what, I've got a shady area. I need some
Speaker 3: help with it. They can provide the palette of plants
Speaker 3: to show you, and you choose what's appealing to you,
Speaker 3: and then they give you the advice on what to
Speaker 3: do about them. Maybe you bought a plant weeks ago
Speaker 3: and you're struggling with it for whatever reason the past.
Speaker 3: It is he who knows what. You go in and
Speaker 3: you talk to him about it and they'll give you
Speaker 3: advice on that, bring them a picture or whatever. It's
Speaker 3: a complete independent garden center package all in one there
Speaker 3: at Arborgate, and I will promise you every time you go,
Speaker 3: you're going to have a good time and you are
Speaker 3: going to find a lot of really cool stuff to
Speaker 3: turn your garden into something that's more beautiful and more bountiful. Well,
Speaker 3: you are listening to garden Line this morning, and since
Speaker 3: we are a call in show, wouldn't it be a
Speaker 3: good idea if I gave you a call in number?
Speaker 3: I think you would seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: five eight seven four seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: fifty eight seventy four. Give us a call. We'll talk
Speaker 3: about the things that are most of interest to you. Now,
Speaker 3: these storms that we just went through have been brutal.
Speaker 3: That we had the one a while back that wasn't
Speaker 3: connected to a hurricane, and I mean it knocked power
Speaker 3: out all over the place. Trees were down. Sometimes I
Speaker 3: wonder that there's still a living tree in Houston. After
Speaker 3: the effects of these two storms, it really wiped them out.
Speaker 3: And then we had a hurricane barrel come through and
Speaker 3: again lots of trees destroyed, lots of power outages and
Speaker 3: things like that. It is important to get ready for
Speaker 3: future storms because look, we live here on the Gulf Coast.
Speaker 3: It's just part of hurricane season, which runs June through November.
Speaker 3: But remember that first one wasn't even a hurricane. We
Speaker 3: can have heavy storms that do heavy damage in any
Speaker 3: time of the year pretty much. It is not just
Speaker 3: part of the package here. But what you can do
Speaker 3: is you can choose trees that are very strong, that
Speaker 3: are not the grow fast, dye young trees that often
Speaker 3: get sold and shouldn't that are trees that are stable,
Speaker 3: that have strong branches. You can train them properly, have
Speaker 3: people prune them, who know what they're talking about out properly,
Speaker 3: so it gives them the best chance of all of
Speaker 3: letting that excess wind get through the through the canopy
Speaker 3: of the tree and yet still had that strongest possible
Speaker 3: branch structure to do the best job possible during those storms.
Speaker 3: And that's what Affordable Tree does. Martin Spoon Mooret Affordable Tree.
Speaker 3: Uh you know, I I love sending people to Martin
Speaker 3: because I know the kind of work that they do.
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Speaker 3: get a hold of them. Just seven one three six
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Speaker 3: it's also very helpful to go that route Afftree Service
Speaker 3: dot com. I cannot express enough the importance of proper
Speaker 3: tree care. We got a lot of storm season and
Speaker 3: this is one where they're predicting quite a few hurricanes
Speaker 3: this year. Don't mess around. Get Martin out there telling
Speaker 3: me your guardenline listener. That helps you get toward the
Speaker 3: front of the line, which is important because he stays
Speaker 3: busy because he does good work that's just how that works.
Speaker 3: People know the kind of work that Martin does. Affordable
Speaker 3: Tree Service seven one three six nine nine two six
Speaker 3: sixty three, get those trees properly pruned. I drive around
Speaker 3: town all the time, and I see hack jobs and
Speaker 3: trees almost look like hat racks. When some of these
Speaker 3: uninformed let's give him the benefit of the doubt, uninformed
Speaker 3: tree services get in there and just chop things up.
Speaker 3: Just because you want to pick up in a chainsaw
Speaker 3: does not make you a tree service or a tree
Speaker 3: specialist in any way, shape or form. You have got
Speaker 3: to hire somebody that knows what they're doing and does
Speaker 3: a proper job. That is very important because listen, when
Speaker 3: you miss prune a tree severely, and you know, get
Speaker 3: that chainsaw in there and do a lot of very
Speaker 3: ill advised cutting, that tree is now weakened, if not
Speaker 3: ruined for life. It is hard to grow your way
Speaker 3: out of a butcher job on a tree. Well, I'm
Speaker 3: gonna take a little break here, we'll be right back. Hey,
Speaker 3: here's the number if you want to get on the
Speaker 3: on the boards with Chris seven one three two one
Speaker 3: two k T r H seven one three two one
Speaker 3: two k T r H. I'll be right back. Would
Speaker 3: you like to talk about today. Let's figure that out
Speaker 3: and let's solve some problems, identify some plants. Maybe there's
Speaker 3: some diagnosing we can do to help out. We're happy
Speaker 3: to do that. You know, if you go online to
Speaker 3: my website Gardening with Skip dot com Gardening with Skip
Speaker 3: dot com, you can find my two schedules on there,
Speaker 3: and you will find one is called the lawn Care Schedule.
Speaker 3: The other one is the Disease, Insect and Weed Management Schedule.
Speaker 3: And these two schedules I've put together after a lot
Speaker 3: of research, visiting with various kinds of specialists and entomology
Speaker 3: and plant pathology and soul science and you name it.
Speaker 3: Uh And they're a wealth of information. I've got them
Speaker 3: color coded so it's really easy to follow them along. So,
Speaker 3: like if you're going to fertilize, let's say there's two
Speaker 3: rows across from January to December that tells you exactly
Speaker 3: when to apply fertilizer. One is if you're using synthetic products,
Speaker 3: one is if you're using organic products. And also in
Speaker 3: there is the trace mineral supplement. Now, the trace mineral
Speaker 3: supplement that would be azamite. We put asmite down to
Speaker 3: provide trace minerals that the turf needs. What is a
Speaker 3: trace mineral, Well, you can call it a trace mineral,
Speaker 3: you can call it a micro nutrient. Doesn't matter how
Speaker 3: what you call it. The bottom line is it's something
Speaker 3: that is essential for plant growth, but in tiny amounts.
Speaker 3: So you know, just because it's needed in small amounts
Speaker 3: doesn't make it essential. And the way I explain it
Speaker 3: to people is if you could take every molecule of
Speaker 3: zinc out of the soil, or if you could take
Speaker 3: every molecule of you know of iron or any tiny
Speaker 3: trace mineral out of the soil, a plant cannot grow
Speaker 3: because it's essential. So our goal is to make sure
Speaker 3: the soil bank account has an adequate amount of all
Speaker 3: these nutrients. And that's why we have asamite. Asmite is
Speaker 3: a product that is mined out a Utah. It is
Speaker 3: widely available through the Houston area, not a problem finding it.
Speaker 3: You don't need to use it every time you fertilize.
Speaker 3: You just once a year is enough and if you
Speaker 3: get a soil test that'll helpe guide you as well
Speaker 3: when it comes to as might application. What is needed,
Speaker 3: what isn't needed in those kinds of things. But the
Speaker 3: key thing to remember, by the way, if you want
Speaker 3: to learn more about it, you can go to azamitetextas
Speaker 3: dot com, azmite texts dot com find out more about it.
Speaker 3: But it is widely available and you should have some
Speaker 3: on hand because you're gonna want to apply it periodically
Speaker 3: to the soil, especially when you see certain kinds of
Speaker 3: deficiencies there in your turf. But also on the schedule
Speaker 3: when you're looking at it, there is aeration, there is
Speaker 3: proper mowing that you're thinking, I need to be told
Speaker 3: how to mow my lawn. I know how to start
Speaker 3: a lawn more and run around. Well, this goes into
Speaker 3: more detail than that. It talks about how high you
Speaker 3: mow and basically the frequency and the importance of all
Speaker 3: of that. Also, watering is on there. I've got the
Speaker 3: historic average inches of water that a Houston lawn needs
Speaker 3: through the year. Now historic versus what actually happens this
Speaker 3: year are always two different things. But at least you
Speaker 3: know that you don't have to apply an inch of
Speaker 3: water a year, a week, every month of the year.
Speaker 3: We just don't need that. But it kind of guides
Speaker 3: you in that, and then there's a list of all
Speaker 3: the different products. So you can take the schedule with
Speaker 3: you when you go shopping and say this is the
Speaker 3: one I want, where is it in your store? And
Speaker 3: people can be you know, garden Center, these Hardware, Southwest Fertilizer,
Speaker 3: the feed store, wherever you go to buy your stuff,
Speaker 3: they're going to be able to direct you to it.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: The other schedule is the lawn pest, disease and weed
Speaker 3: management schedule, and the very first row on the top
Speaker 3: of that is the insect row. So from January to December,
Speaker 3: what are the insects that attack our lawns? And fortunate
Speaker 3: to not have them ail here, but from June to September,
Speaker 3: we have various insects that can hit our lawns. And
Speaker 3: we're in the big middle of that right now. So
Speaker 3: we are in the season where chinchbugs and sideweb worms
Speaker 3: can attack. Typically they the worst of them comes a
Speaker 3: little bit later than we are now, but I mean
Speaker 3: we are on the doorstep of it. And you can
Speaker 3: have a chinchbug problem in your lawn at any point
Speaker 3: in time in this season. They like hot weather, and
Speaker 3: so what do you do about them? Look at the schedule.
Speaker 3: The insects are all in yellow. The insect information is
Speaker 3: all in yellow. You go to the bottom of the
Speaker 3: page and it gives you all the controls for insects
Speaker 3: in yellow in the box at the bottom. Do you
Speaker 3: want to do it organically? Do you want to do
Speaker 3: it synthetically? Do you not care? It's all there for
Speaker 3: you to pick it out as you want it. And
Speaker 3: when it comes to insects, especially those chinchbugs that are
Speaker 3: you know, we're in their time of the year nitrofuss.
Speaker 3: Bug Out Max is a product that you put on
Speaker 3: as granule and you spread it out. Follow the label.
Speaker 3: Always follow the label. It is on there for a reason.
Speaker 3: It is important. And do not believe that if a
Speaker 3: teaspoons good, a tablespoons better follow the label. Apply it
Speaker 3: evenly to your lawn. You water it in and it
Speaker 3: is going to continue to provide control. It'll be it'll
Speaker 3: knock them out within forty eight hours the pests that
Speaker 3: you got there, but it'll continue to provide you to
Speaker 3: control all through the summer growing season. And I trust.
Speaker 3: Bug Out Max is easy to find around town. You're
Speaker 3: going to find it in places like plants for all
Speaker 3: seasons up on two forty nine. You're going to find
Speaker 3: it in place like plants and things out there in
Speaker 3: Brennum or maybe aspas ace up in the woodlands. All
Speaker 3: of those are examples of places that carry nitrofoss products.
Speaker 3: If you'd like to give us a call here on
Speaker 3: garden Line, the number is seven to one three two
Speaker 3: one two k t r H seven one three two
Speaker 3: one two kt r H makes it easy, easy to
Speaker 3: give us a dial and we can help you with
Speaker 3: the kind of things you're interested in. I want to
Speaker 3: talk a little bit about some of the issues that
Speaker 3: we're having. First of all, we've had quite a bit
Speaker 3: of rain, a lot of rain. As a matter of fact,
Speaker 3: when we had a lot of rain, we see in
Speaker 3: our lawns an increase in gray leaf spot in this
Speaker 3: summer season. A gray leaf spot is a disease that
Speaker 3: you notice it from a distance, is like the grass
Speaker 3: is yellowing. Then you get up close and you know
Speaker 3: these spots on those grass blades, the yellow grass blades,
Speaker 3: and gray leaf spot is best if treated promptly. You
Speaker 3: can certainly have something in the turf that's preventing it.
Speaker 3: Some of the systemic type products that are in the
Speaker 3: turf prevented. But anything we can do to minimize the
Speaker 3: frequency and the length of time that our turf is wet.
Speaker 3: So if you have an irrigation system and you're watering
Speaker 3: three times a week, you need to change that. Our
Speaker 3: turf does not need to be watered three times a week.
Speaker 3: I've got areas of my lawn that I have watered
Speaker 3: once this year, once in the sun once and it
Speaker 3: w was number one. We're getting good amount of rain.
Speaker 3: But my point is that if you've got a sprinkler
Speaker 3: running all the time, you're probably watering too shallow, or
Speaker 3: you've got a swamp. You're spending money on drinking water
Speaker 3: that you don't need to be spending, and you're making
Speaker 3: diseases really happy. And they're already pretty happy to be
Speaker 3: living here in the Greater Houston area because of all
Speaker 3: the rain we get and the temperatures we have and whatnot.
Speaker 3: But watch for that gray leaf spot. Look for it
Speaker 3: and anything you can do to brighten an area. If
Speaker 3: we get in deep shade and you get a lot
Speaker 3: of frequent moisture that's just constantly staying on the grass plant,
Speaker 3: then gravy spot takes over and there are fung again,
Speaker 3: that's on the schedule. That's on the schedule. There are
Speaker 3: funge of sides, and there are cultural price just as
Speaker 3: we can do to help avoid or control gray leaf spot.
Speaker 3: But that's something you're going to be seeing right now
Speaker 3: whenever we get into the summertime on the One of
Speaker 3: the key cultural things we do to avoid turf issues
Speaker 3: is number one. Don't mow too low, especially something like
Speaker 3: Saint Augustine. You don't see golf course screens made out
Speaker 3: of Saint Augustine. It is a wonderful grass for the
Speaker 3: places we use. It's most shade tolerant, one of the
Speaker 3: most shade tolerant grasses we have. But you don't want
Speaker 3: to mow it too low. I would say two and
Speaker 3: a half inches to three inches to three and a
Speaker 3: half inches is all good range for Saint Augustine. I
Speaker 3: keep mine on the taller side, and the taller it is,
Speaker 3: the less often you have to mow to cut off
Speaker 3: one third of an inch one third of the leaf blade.
Speaker 3: But anyway, avoid super low moing heights. Do not apply
Speaker 3: excess nitrogen. You hear me talk about our slow release
Speaker 3: fertilizers here in the summer time, Excess nitrogen causes fast
Speaker 3: top growth, which means you got to mowmore. It actually
Speaker 3: creates top growth at the expense of root growth. Did
Speaker 3: you know that when you overdo nitrogen on the lawn,
Speaker 3: you actually have less of a root system than if
Speaker 3: you fertilized properly. Fertilizing is good, it creates density, it
Speaker 3: makes good green color and all of that, but don't
Speaker 3: overdo it. That's why I like slow release fertilizers. Don't
Speaker 3: water so frequently. The more often you water, the more
Speaker 3: problems you have. And excess nitrogen and excess water is
Speaker 3: one of the reasons why what used to be called
Speaker 3: brown patch people still call it that, but the name
Speaker 3: now is a large patch. That's one of the reasons
Speaker 3: you see those big circles in the fall and in
Speaker 3: the spring is we're promoting it with excess water and
Speaker 3: excess nitrogen. Aeration is always important when you have a compot,
Speaker 3: when you have a compacted clay soil is very important
Speaker 3: in order to keep the root system with plenty of
Speaker 3: oxygen a heavy clay soil, oxygen just can't move down
Speaker 3: in the soil. It can get very wet and there's
Speaker 3: just no oxygen down there for roots. Aeration changes that
Speaker 3: add some compost top dressing to it to fall down
Speaker 3: in the hole, you create a better and better root zone.
Speaker 3: And the better you create a root zone for your
Speaker 3: Saint Augustine grass, the more your lawn is going to thrive.
Speaker 3: That's true of any plant. A plant with a very shallow,
Speaker 3: very limited root system is going to be prone to drought.
Speaker 3: It's going to be prone to all kinds of things
Speaker 3: because it doesn't have the development of an extensive root
Speaker 3: system where you can draw on it for water and
Speaker 3: for nutrients. So aeration and compost top dressing is very important.
Speaker 3: That also helps with promoting the microbial activity and the lawn.
Speaker 3: And the more that we do to create optimum health
Speaker 3: by building good soil and yes, even in an established
Speaker 3: lawn you can build soil. You're not using a rototiller,
Speaker 3: but you are using aeration, compost, top dressing and other practices.
Speaker 3: The more you minimize disease issues that you might have,
Speaker 3: and the more you develop a deep, resilient, deep rooted,
Speaker 3: resilient grass plant. So when you have a little drought,
Speaker 3: you've got a better root system to withstand it. When
Speaker 3: a few grubs come along and chomp off a few roots,
Speaker 3: you still have a very good, extensive root system for
Speaker 3: that grass to thrive. That's what we're talking about. You know,
Speaker 3: we talk here a lot about here's what you kill
Speaker 3: that weed with, or here's what you kill that insect with,
Speaker 3: or here's what you kill that disease with. But the
Speaker 3: foundation is always on cultural practices, selecting plants that don't
Speaker 3: get sick whenever possible. And right now in the industry,
Speaker 3: you will not find Saint Augustine de class up turf. Well,
Speaker 3: there are a few obscure places that will sell you
Speaker 3: just general old time Saint Augustine that gets the virus
Speaker 3: that can't be cured, Saint Augustine de client. But it's
Speaker 3: been bred. Resistance has been bred into our modern Saint
Speaker 3: Augustine varieties. Doesn't it make sense to have something that
Speaker 3: doesn't get sick rather than going, Okay, how do I
Speaker 3: control this problem? And that's what we aim for. When
Speaker 3: I say cultural practice, I mean setting the plan up
Speaker 3: for success. All Right, we're going to take a little break. Here.
Speaker 3: Our phone number if you'd like to give Chris call,
Speaker 3: be first up. When we come back. Seven one three
Speaker 3: two one two k t RH. Hey, we are here
Speaker 3: to talk about gardening. Whatever is of interest to you.
Speaker 3: Feel free to give us a call if you like.
Speaker 3: Seven one three two one two k t r H.
Speaker 3: I was discussing some principles of taking care of your
Speaker 3: lawn and some of the issues that lawns are gonna
Speaker 3: have and are already this summer here in the Greater
Speaker 3: Houston area. And whenever we start dealing with lawn problems,
Speaker 3: we just always need to remember again just to reiterate
Speaker 3: cultural conditions. Cultural practices are so very important. The more
Speaker 3: often you mow alawn, the better it looks. And think
Speaker 3: about this if you had a head, because when you
Speaker 3: mow alawn, what you're doing is you're hedging your lawn.
Speaker 3: That's that's an analogy that I think helps explain how
Speaker 3: things work in the lawn. If you have a hedge
Speaker 3: and you were to go back and shere it twice
Speaker 3: a year and let it grow way out, and then
Speaker 3: you share it way back, way out, and then you
Speaker 3: share it way back, it would be ugly. First of all,
Speaker 3: after you shared it, it'd be all brown and sticky.
Speaker 3: Then it'd have to twiggy is what I'm saying. That
Speaker 3: theo the hedge would have to regrow. You'd get these
Speaker 3: new shoots, it start looking good again, and then it
Speaker 3: grows and grows, and then you share it. That would
Speaker 3: be a horrible way to take care of a hedge.
Speaker 3: It would look terrible. It wouldn't be good for the plants,
Speaker 3: and it certainly wouldn't be good for us. Your lawn
Speaker 3: is similar to that. Let it grow up real, real
Speaker 3: tall and then cut it way way back, and let
Speaker 3: it grow a real tall and cut it way way back.
Speaker 3: That's stressful to the grass plant and it looks bad.
Speaker 3: But the more often you mow the better. And so
Speaker 3: regular mowing with a sharp mower is important. And I
Speaker 3: say a sharp more and you probably that probably just
Speaker 3: kind of flies by and doesn't reregister. But that's important.
Speaker 3: And here's a couple of reasons why. Number one is
Speaker 3: less strained or your lawnmower. That is important. But number two,
Speaker 3: when you cut grass blades with a nice sharp mower,
Speaker 3: it makes a nice clean cut. When your more gets
Speaker 3: really dull, basically it's just slashing off the end of
Speaker 3: the grass blade, leaving it all frayed and split. And
Speaker 3: torn up instead of a nice clean cut scissor like cut.
Speaker 3: And so when you end up with that, you have
Speaker 3: brown areas that are bigger on the end of each
Speaker 3: grass blade. So go with me on this just for
Speaker 3: one second. So if you take those brown areas and
Speaker 3: think of them as pixels on a screen, and you
Speaker 3: have the screen full of green, and then you just
Speaker 3: fill it with about you know, twenty five percent brown pixels,
Speaker 3: what's it going to look like? Less green? Right? You
Speaker 3: may not notice specifically the brown, but the overall appearance
Speaker 3: of the lawn is not as good. And when you
Speaker 3: multiply times a billion grass blades, it makes a difference.
Speaker 3: So clean cut is important for several reasons, even in
Speaker 3: some cases for disease related reasons can be affected by that.
Speaker 3: So just my suggestion is keep that look more blade
Speaker 3: sharp and mow often. Our goal is to cut off
Speaker 3: a third of the grass blade every time we mow.
Speaker 3: So when you do that, when you mow off a
Speaker 3: third of the grass blade, that's a that is a
Speaker 3: minor shearing that the grass just gets denser and denser
Speaker 3: and denser and looks better. And I realize when it
Speaker 3: rains for five days you're going to get behind. I
Speaker 3: have it in mind. Several times this year because of rain,
Speaker 3: I've bagged my clippings, which is not what I normally do.
Speaker 3: But I don't put them at the curb side. They're
Speaker 3: in garden beds, they're in garden walkways that they get
Speaker 3: they get sprinkled, all kinds of places where they end
Speaker 3: up helping rely contribute to the soil by releasing those
Speaker 3: nutrients back into the soil. We're going to go out
Speaker 3: to the phones now again. The number is seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two fifty eight seventy four. We're going
Speaker 3: to talk to Malcolm. Hello, Malcolm, Malcolm.
Speaker 5: Oh, yes, or I am yes, I'm.
Speaker 3: Here, you know.
Speaker 6: Hey, good hey, good morning.
Speaker 3: Hey.
Speaker 7: How do you get rid of chamber bitter a weed
Speaker 7: in Saint Augustine lawn?
Speaker 3: There are there's two approaches. One is to use a
Speaker 3: pre emergent product. Well, let me back up even further.
Speaker 3: I've been talking about cultural The denture of your lawn
Speaker 3: gets the less chamber better. You're going to have chamber bitter.
Speaker 3: Like other weed seeds, needs light to germinate and establish
Speaker 3: a plant and a dense lawn. It's very difficult for
Speaker 3: it to get started. Wherever sunlight hits the soil, you're
Speaker 3: going to see needs like chamber butter. Secondly, though, as
Speaker 3: a pre emergent, will prevent seeds from germinating, that would
Speaker 3: be another step and you need to do that. Chamber
Speaker 3: bitter is one to sprout a little later than a
Speaker 3: lot of other weeds like crabgrass is way ahead of
Speaker 3: chamber better when it comes to when it sprouts, so
Speaker 3: you don't have to worry about getting your pre measure
Speaker 3: down exactly in early to mid February. You can go
Speaker 3: a little bit later with it. And then sometimes a
Speaker 3: second application is needed, Malcolm, because any product you put
Speaker 3: out like that is going to break down in time,
Speaker 3: so maybe forty five to sixty days later a repeat
Speaker 3: application helpful to that. Once it's in your lawn, then
Speaker 3: you're talking about a post emergent broad leaf control herbicide.
Speaker 3: So if you can, you can ignore it and mow it.
Speaker 3: That's always one option. Organic gardeners and not gonna spray
Speaker 3: stuff on their lawn like that. They just mow and
Speaker 3: ignore and work their way out of it by building
Speaker 3: density over the seasons and years to come. If you
Speaker 3: spray with a post emergent, I would probably use something
Speaker 3: called celsius. I talk about that a lot on garden line.
Speaker 3: Celsius is like the temperature celsius, and it is a
Speaker 3: product that you can use when the weather is a
Speaker 3: little warmer. A lot of the other post emergent products,
Speaker 3: the trimeac types of products that are often used in spring.
Speaker 3: In the summertime, they'll really they can damage your Saint
Speaker 3: Augustine lawn in hot temperature. So even with celsius, I
Speaker 3: would do it in the morning. But if you get
Speaker 3: the celsius on the leaves of the chamber Better, it's
Speaker 3: pretty good at controlling it. But you need to do
Speaker 3: it promptly because have you ever looked closely at a
Speaker 3: chamber Better leaf and seeing the little balls underneath the leaf?
Speaker 3: And I haven't really close, but no, I've got a
Speaker 3: lot of it. I can find it. Yeah, Well, when
Speaker 3: you pick one, it's got that compound leaf with all
Speaker 3: the little leaflets going down the stalk. If you look
Speaker 3: underneath there along that little stem that's holding all the leaflets,
Speaker 3: they're little balls, and that's the flowers and seeds of
Speaker 3: chamber Better. So once you create a new crop, even
Speaker 3: if you kill the old chamber better. You just sentenced
Speaker 3: yourself to a season or two more of weeding, certainly
Speaker 3: in a year or two of weeding, so prompt action
Speaker 3: is important, got you.
Speaker 8: I sure appreciate it, all right, good luck with that.
Speaker 3: Appreciate that.
Speaker 9: Thanks, Thank you girl.
Speaker 3: I wish you bet. I wish we could eat chamber better.
Speaker 3: You know, they say if you can't beat him, join them.
Speaker 3: When it comes to some weeds, if you can't beat them,
Speaker 3: eat him. Did you know you can eat chick weed?
Speaker 3: You can, sure can. There's some other weeds that you
Speaker 3: can eat. I'm not going to go into all those now,
Speaker 3: but yep, there's some edible weeds. People eat dandelions. That's
Speaker 3: another one. I'm not a fan of dandelions, so I
Speaker 3: can tell you that person lane is a weed that
Speaker 3: you can eat. All right, we're talking about edible weeds.
Speaker 3: But if you can't beat them, eat them in some cases.
Speaker 3: But hear me, clearly, don't eat everything in your lawn
Speaker 3: because there are some some weeds you do not want
Speaker 3: to eat as well. You're listening to garden Line. My
Speaker 3: phone number here is seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: kt r H seven to one three two one two
Speaker 3: kt r h the the we were talking about cultural
Speaker 3: practices and things we do to have success, and I
Speaker 3: mentioned mowing and how important that is when it comes
Speaker 3: to our flower beds I have had. I've got some
Speaker 3: multiple flower beds, but there are some areas I was
Speaker 3: in a hurry putting it out and I sprinkled around
Speaker 3: and I didn't get it quite thick enough. And what
Speaker 3: is thick enough? Well, how deep should mulch be? What
Speaker 3: depends on the mult If you had let's say some
Speaker 3: people use compost as a surface mulch, Well that's very
Speaker 3: fine textured and it doesn't have to be as thick
Speaker 3: to block the light from hitting the soil surface, although
Speaker 3: weeds will land in the compost and they'll grow, so
Speaker 3: that's just something you have to deal with. But the
Speaker 3: chunkier your multch gets, the thicker it needs to be
Speaker 3: in order to adequately block the light. And I was
Speaker 3: using a shredded mult was kind of in the medium
Speaker 3: medium to find texture. But I have some thin areas
Speaker 3: and I got to go out and do some hand
Speaker 3: weed pulling yesterday because some sprouts had come up through
Speaker 3: the multch. It wasn't the mulch's fault. It was the
Speaker 3: mulch applicator. That would be me. It's the mulch applicator's fault.
Speaker 3: I didn't put it thick enough. So now that I've
Speaker 3: pulled those what's going to happen in those areas? More
Speaker 3: weeds are going to sprout. I got to put more
Speaker 3: mulch on top. And I have heard on more than
Speaker 3: one occasion a collar or someone will say, well, do
Speaker 3: I need to get that old mult out of there
Speaker 3: to put the fresh molts in? And I guess I
Speaker 3: can see how that may sound like a good idea,
Speaker 3: but don't do it. Think about nature. Let's follow nature's lead.
Speaker 3: Does do you ever see a deer in the forest
Speaker 3: raking all the old leaves out so that the new
Speaker 3: crop of leaves and fall can land on fresh soil. No,
Speaker 3: of course, not that that's a Gary Larson cartoon. I'd
Speaker 3: like to have a T shirt with that on it.
Speaker 3: But what happens is you drop the new organic matter
Speaker 3: on top of the old because the old is still helping,
Speaker 3: and the old is decomposing away and releasing nutrients into
Speaker 3: the soil and stimulating microbial growth and benefiting the plant.
Speaker 3: So just add fresh mults on top of the old malt.
Speaker 3: Don't rake the old stuff out. Wells time, take a
Speaker 3: little break here. I will be back again. Our phone
Speaker 3: number if you'd like to give a skull seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two fifty eight seventy four with us
Speaker 3: talking about all kinds of things related to lawns and
Speaker 3: plants and success and cultural practices and whatnot, but just
Speaker 3: talking about the importance of malts and the molts needs
Speaker 3: to be deep enough, and the kind of molts you
Speaker 3: put on, how chunky it is determines how deep it
Speaker 3: needs to be to truly block the soil surface. Well
Speaker 3: Landscaper's Pride has a wide variety of mults and a number
Speaker 3: of different mulches. One of the ones that I think
Speaker 3: is beautiful is their black velvet. It is not dyed.
Speaker 3: It is naturally dark colored, very velvety and dense. It
Speaker 3: does a very good job through the summertime, and I
Speaker 3: think it's very attractive. Don't use dye mulch, but you
Speaker 3: can use this one. I think that's a great one.
Speaker 3: They have a hardwood mults. It's shredded hardwood. You know,
Speaker 3: it's just part of the natural land clearing process. You
Speaker 3: get these hardwood materials that are shredded up. It's not
Speaker 3: ground palettes like some of the cheap junk you see
Speaker 3: on the market. Is this is true shredded hardwood. Great
Speaker 3: use for walkways too, for flower beds, recreational area. Then
Speaker 3: they have pine Mark the most popular one. That's the
Speaker 3: one that again very very attractive, very slow to decompose,
Speaker 3: so you're not having to top it off as much
Speaker 3: because of that. And then Cedar whole Cedar logs ground
Speaker 3: up beautiful air aroma as it comes in, very nice,
Speaker 3: beautiful red color as it comes in. And then the
Speaker 3: Cypress multch is locally sourced Cypress logs and it's known
Speaker 3: for durability. It kind of when it's wet, it kind
Speaker 3: of stays in place very well, does a very good
Speaker 3: job of that. A's supposed to floating all away, very
Speaker 3: light in color. All from Landscaper's Pride. You can find
Speaker 3: it everywhere in bags wherever you shop. Just go online
Speaker 3: to Landscaperspride dot com and find the store located there
Speaker 3: where you can find the ones or the places that
Speaker 3: are closest to you to be able to get some
Speaker 3: of their quality products. We're going to go now out
Speaker 3: to Sharon and Hello Sharon, and welcome to guard Line.
Speaker 10: Good morning. I have a problem. I was told it's
Speaker 10: box would light, uh, and it was a fungusment. And
Speaker 10: what what can I do about that?
Speaker 3: I don't need a name, but who told you that?
Speaker 3: Was it a landscaper or was it.
Speaker 10: A a garden center? I just described what was going on,
Speaker 10: and that that's what he said he thought it was.
Speaker 3: It could be it could be buck boxwood light. It
Speaker 3: also could be other things, though, and so the only
Speaker 3: way to know for sure, uh, you know, if someone's
Speaker 3: just seeing a dead boxwood, it's hard to diagnose. That
Speaker 3: way is to send a sample up to the university
Speaker 3: UH plant clinic. There's a state plant clinic up at
Speaker 3: A and M. The website is Plant Clinic dot t
Speaker 3: A m U dot E d U t A m
Speaker 3: U stands for Texas and M University Plant Clinic dot
Speaker 3: TAMU dot E d U UH. Get dig up the boxwood,
Speaker 3: shake off excess soil, but don't cut off the roots.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 3: I think with something the size of boxwood, I would
Speaker 3: just drive it up there. You can drop it off
Speaker 3: at the clinic, but you can also mail it if
Speaker 3: you want to go that route and let them diagnose it.
Speaker 3: They will get it in a lab, they will culture
Speaker 3: it out in a Petri diish, and they'll give you
Speaker 3: a definitive answer of what it was that caused it.
Speaker 3: That way, you're not wasting time on products and money
Speaker 3: spending money. That may not be what you need to do.
Speaker 3: But box with blight is very difficult to control. I
Speaker 3: don't know that it has a good chemical control. I'm
Speaker 3: have to look, and I think once a plant has it,
Speaker 3: it's going to be very difficult to turn that around.
Speaker 3: But my suggestion would be to get a more lab
Speaker 3: based diagnosis.
Speaker 10: Okay, all right, all right, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Appreciate that you pull when you see the plants and
Speaker 3: when you see the plants in your landscape sharing. Is
Speaker 3: it like here and there plants are dying or does
Speaker 3: it start at one spot and then the plant beside
Speaker 3: those get it and then the plants beside those get it.
Speaker 10: Yeah, It's it's like the tip of the leaf starts
Speaker 10: to kind of turn yellow and then it turns you know,
Speaker 10: it goes down the branch and it just becomes like
Speaker 10: hay color. And I've been cutting that part out and Uh,
Speaker 10: then the rest of the plant seems to be okay.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 10: I have I have pulled up three These are young plants.
Speaker 10: I planted them last year, and I pulled the plants
Speaker 10: up entirely and dug that soil out that they were
Speaker 10: in and then replanted, and those plants seem to be
Speaker 10: doing okay. But uh, you know it, just like not
Speaker 10: every single one. I have a hedge row of boxwood,
Speaker 10: and they're young, and just like every third or fourth
Speaker 10: plant will show these signs. And I was just wondering,
Speaker 10: you know, what I could do to stop it and
Speaker 10: prevent the other ones from you know, being infected.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, I tell you, with the possibilities of nematodes
Speaker 3: and root rots and other things like that, I wouldn't
Speaker 3: jump to the conclusion that it's blight. And depending on
Speaker 3: what it is, you may or may not have control options.
Speaker 3: And so that's that is its best to replace. Once
Speaker 3: the blight is in an area, it's best to replace
Speaker 3: them with something else you can spread. If it were blight,
Speaker 3: you could spread around printing tools. If it were blight,
Speaker 3: you could use preventative fungicides on the ones that aren't sick.
Speaker 3: So that is an option, but you're gonna have to
Speaker 3: spray pretty often. And again, you know, I hate to
Speaker 3: send you out to buy something and the time and
Speaker 3: money applying it and everything if we're not going after
Speaker 3: the right thing. So that's kind of why I think
Speaker 3: it's since you have a lot of box woods and
Speaker 3: there's a lot of money tied up in that, I
Speaker 3: would rather get a good, accurate diagnosis and then they
Speaker 3: will if they when they diagnose, they will tell you
Speaker 3: what to do about it. And there are there are
Speaker 3: some resistant boxwoods to the blight, so you know that
Speaker 3: would be a possibility. I guess what what are.
Speaker 10: These are? Japanese boxwood?
Speaker 3: Let's see what you know what? Off the top of
Speaker 3: my head, I can't think of the name of a
Speaker 3: of a type. Oh gosh, I would have to look
Speaker 3: that up. I just don't know offhand. Most of the
Speaker 3: time what people do is they try to come up
Speaker 3: with a different plant that is kind of similar, Like
Speaker 3: dwarfyopond is somewhat similar to boxwood in terms of being
Speaker 3: a little shrub with small leaves and dents and some
Speaker 3: and stuff that that would be one of the things
Speaker 3: you could do. Dorothiopon doesn't seem.
Speaker 13: To get so much show.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you very much, appreciate your call. All right,
Speaker 3: you are listening to guard Line here. We are all
Speaker 3: right about to hit another another break for the news.
Speaker 3: I'll be back and in the meantime, if you'd like
Speaker 3: to give us a call, we got an open board.
Speaker 3: Feel free to get Chris a call. Here's a number.
Speaker 3: Seven one three two one two k t R eight
Speaker 3: seven one three two one two k t r H.
Speaker 3: We will be back in a moment. In the meantime,
Speaker 3: I did want to mention I talked about the importance
Speaker 3: if you've gone fertilized, the fertilizing with something that is
Speaker 3: that is a slow release product. And when I come
Speaker 3: back from break, I want to talk to you a
Speaker 3: little bit about that. How that works, uh, and how
Speaker 3: how you go about doing that. In the meantime, have
Speaker 3: a night, so break with me and we'll be right back.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kat r H Garden Line with Scarp Richter's.
Speaker 3: Crazy trip.
Speaker 2: Just watch him as.
Speaker 1: Many good things to see.
Speaker 3: Not a sign. Welcome to garden Line. Welcome back to
Speaker 3: the garden Line. Good to have you with us today.
Speaker 3: We've got plenty of things to talk about and I
Speaker 3: am going to jump right into this. First of all,
Speaker 3: I wanted to tell you a little bit about Plants
Speaker 3: for All Seasons, which is the garden center up there
Speaker 3: on two forty nine just north of Louetta. So if
Speaker 3: you if you exit for Luetta across over Luetta, it's
Speaker 3: going to be on the right hand side. I'm telling
Speaker 3: you this, and probably most of you know it because
Speaker 3: you've been there. It's one of the most popular garden
Speaker 3: centers we have in the greater Houston area. And the
Speaker 3: reason is they've been around since the nineteen seventies and
Speaker 3: the Flowerty family has developed a reputation of carrying the
Speaker 3: kinds of plants that do best here, of hiring and
Speaker 3: training their folks to absolutely be dependable resources of information,
Speaker 3: and then finally to give their customers service. If you
Speaker 3: come in there and you have a bug and a bag,
Speaker 3: or if you have a picture of a dead plant
Speaker 3: or whatever, they're going to be able to direct you
Speaker 3: to the kind of things that you need. And that's
Speaker 3: what you're looking for. When you go to an independent
Speaker 3: garden center like Plants for All Seasons, you know that
Speaker 3: you're going to get something that will grow here and
Speaker 3: advice on how to grow it here, and if something
Speaker 3: ever goes wrong, what to do about it. That is
Speaker 3: very very important. And I'm telling you to throw your
Speaker 3: money away at some plant that doesn't want to grow here.
Speaker 3: That's not going to happen. It plans for all seasons. Unfortunately,
Speaker 3: there are places where it does be nine Plans for
Speaker 3: all seasons. You can go to the website Plans for
Speaker 3: All Seasons dot com or give them a call to
Speaker 3: eight one three seven six sixteen forty six two eight
Speaker 3: one three seven six one six four six. We're going
Speaker 3: to go now out to Conroe and talk to VICKI. Hello, Vicky,
Speaker 3: welcome to garden.
Speaker 14: Line, Hie. Can you hear me?
Speaker 3: How can we help?
Speaker 15: I can?
Speaker 3: How can we help?
Speaker 14: Okay? I have a knockout rose that has the blooms
Speaker 14: are tiny and don't have very many peckles on them
Speaker 14: like they used to. Okay, and I've heard like every month.
Speaker 3: Any other symptoms that you're seeing, Well.
Speaker 14: It hasn't ever looked good since that hard freeze we had.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 14: The lower branches are pretty bare. All of the foliage
Speaker 14: is out on the like the upper quarter of the plant.
Speaker 3: Okay, And you're sure it's a knockout right for sure.
Speaker 16: Yeah.
Speaker 14: Yeah, I've had it since I you know, got it.
Speaker 14: It just doesn't look the same anymore.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's kind of strange. How much sunlight is
Speaker 3: it getting?
Speaker 14: Bull sides.
Speaker 3: Both sign when you said that the ends of the
Speaker 3: branches have foliage, but further down there's not. Did you
Speaker 3: notice that the leaves turned yellow or had spots or
Speaker 3: anything like that on them before they fell off?
Speaker 14: No, they just didn't come back after the freeze, the
Speaker 14: part that's down below.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'll tell you what what I want you to
Speaker 3: do is I'm gonna in second here, I'm gonna put
Speaker 3: you on hold and Chris will give you an email
Speaker 3: and if you could take some pictures of it, check
Speaker 3: them before you send them, make sure they're really well focused.
Speaker 3: But I'd like to see some branches up close, the
Speaker 3: bush as a whole. Let me take a look, because
Speaker 3: of the bush at a hole kind of shows me
Speaker 3: the setting that it's growing in. And let me take
Speaker 3: a look at that, because what you're describing shouldn't be
Speaker 3: happening on a knockout rows And I just want to
Speaker 3: see the leaves toward the end of the branch. Any
Speaker 3: leaves that don't look normal. I'd like to see the
Speaker 3: little twigs out toward the end of the branch, the
Speaker 3: growth that's fairly new, and so let me look at
Speaker 3: that and I'll get back with you then with probably
Speaker 3: a more accurate diagnosis, because what you're describing I haven't
Speaker 3: seen on knockout. So can we do that?
Speaker 14: Okay, sure, all right, thank.
Speaker 3: You, Just hang on, put your on hold. Chris will
Speaker 3: be with you in just a moment to give you
Speaker 3: that email. We're going to go back now to Pasadena,
Speaker 3: Texas and talk to John.
Speaker 13: Hello.
Speaker 3: Excuse me just one second. If I pushed the right button,
Speaker 3: We're going to talk to John. Hello, John, Welcome to
Speaker 3: garden Line.
Speaker 11: Hello, how are you this morning?
Speaker 3: I'm good, sir. How can I help?
Speaker 5: I have two.
Speaker 11: Citrus plants, one's of Myers lemon and the other ones
Speaker 11: of satsuma. On the Myers lemon, the two last freezes
Speaker 11: have devastated that tree, and the last one it lost
Speaker 11: all the leafs, all the branches died. I left it
Speaker 11: there for months and then finally after I trended it
Speaker 11: way back, I got two shoots that came off the
Speaker 11: bottom by the close to the ground and one shoote
Speaker 11: has these little, tiny, tiny leaves that came up. The
Speaker 11: other shoote has leaves kind of like the Mar's lemon.
Speaker 11: And I'm wondering if that, huh, or.
Speaker 3: The leaves that are tiny in groups of three as
Speaker 3: opposed to a Meyer lemon just has one big leaf
Speaker 3: or these small leaves like in groups of three.
Speaker 11: Well, I don't know that. I didn't look at Let
Speaker 11: me look at it.
Speaker 3: Okay, that's okay. So at the bottom of the mar
Speaker 3: lemon is a graft union. It's a place where the
Speaker 3: plant was butted, where they took a rootstock and they
Speaker 3: put a Meyer lemon on top of it, that rootstan.
Speaker 11: And I'm aware of that, so I'm thinking, go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that. I think you got a rootstock
Speaker 3: in those little tiny leaves. But one of the types
Speaker 3: of rootstock they use is called trifoliate orange because it
Speaker 3: has three leaves try fulliot, three foliage altogether. And I
Speaker 3: think that's what you're describing. You just got to print
Speaker 3: it out right up against where it came out, because
Speaker 3: it's of no use to you. If the okay, you're
Speaker 3: just producing normal leaves, then it sounds like you that
Speaker 3: is worth keeping that may still be a mere lemon.
Speaker 11: Yes, okay, and that's kind of what I thought. I
Speaker 11: thought that it came up below the graph, but I
Speaker 11: couldn't tell because the graphs so hard to tail on
Speaker 11: this lemon tree. But yeah, okay, so I can just
Speaker 11: cut off a little tiny leaves, sute cut it off,
Speaker 11: and the other one leave it fertile it to fertilize it. Huh.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, there's a brand new shoot and you know
Speaker 3: it's not got some size and woodiness to it. You
Speaker 3: can just grab it and break it off, pull it
Speaker 3: downward and it just breaks right off the stem. But
Speaker 3: you can also print it, but print it close, don't
Speaker 3: leave any nub. And as far as fertilizing, you have
Speaker 3: a number of different options. There are some really good
Speaker 3: fertilizers out there that work well for ctrus types of plants.
Speaker 3: H See where are you? You're done in Pasadena area?
Speaker 3: You got some really good ACE Hardware stores in your
Speaker 3: neighborhood down there. You can go to Ace Hardware dot
Speaker 3: com find find the ones closest. You may know where
Speaker 3: they are they're going to carry. They're going to carry
Speaker 3: stuff like from Nelson plant Food that is a citrus
Speaker 3: specifically fertilizer. They may have one from Nitrofuss as well
Speaker 3: that's designed for that or from a microlife. All three
Speaker 3: of those guys produce fertilizers that are very good for
Speaker 3: use on fruit and ceterus and those types of plants.
Speaker 11: Okay, we are we looking at a non an instant
Speaker 11: shot of fertile fertilizing, but a long term slow fertilizer
Speaker 11: for that plant since it's since it's trying to come back.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't worry about an instant shot yet. Just
Speaker 3: go ahead and put the fertilizer around it, Scratch it
Speaker 3: into the soil. You know, this will a little rate,
Speaker 3: get it the surface or down in the mulch, and
Speaker 3: then watered in really well and it you'll be good
Speaker 3: to go. I'm hitting up against a hard break here,
Speaker 3: but I hope that helps, uh, and I'll wish you
Speaker 3: well with it. All right, thank you, sir? Are all
Speaker 3: right time for us take a little break. I'll be
Speaker 3: right back phone number seven one three two one two
Speaker 3: fifty eight seventy four. Scott, glad you're listening today. By
Speaker 3: the way, thank you for listening to garden Line. It's
Speaker 3: always great to be able to visit with gardeners in
Speaker 3: the Greater Houston area, and we certainly get to do
Speaker 3: that every Saturday and every Sunday from six to ten am.
Speaker 3: Well ago I said, I was going to talk a
Speaker 3: little bit about slow release fertilizers and what that's all about.
Speaker 3: What it's about is when you take a slow release
Speaker 3: fertilizer such as nitrophos superturf that's their silver bag in it.
Speaker 3: The nitrogen in it is in more than one form,
Speaker 3: and so some of it gets released right away and
Speaker 3: then some of it gets released gradually over time. They
Speaker 3: can take nitrogen and put it in forms that are
Speaker 3: water soluble that would be float immediate release. They can
Speaker 3: put it in other kinds of forms. There's more than
Speaker 3: one option. Some of them a bacteria and microbes and
Speaker 3: the soil break it down and release it. There just
Speaker 3: is a number of mechanisms that release it. But it
Speaker 3: gives you a gradual feeding because your lawn feeds every day.
Speaker 3: Every day, the lawn is taking up nutrients and small
Speaker 3: amounts to support growth. It doesn't take a big lunch
Speaker 3: at the first of the month and then not take
Speaker 3: up anything else again for the rest of the month.
Speaker 17: You know that.
Speaker 3: I mean, that's kind of ridiculous, but it feeds every day.
Speaker 3: So when you put a fertilizer like nitrofive superturf down,
Speaker 3: now you know that for three maybe more months, depending
Speaker 3: on the weather, you're going to get a release of nutrients.
Speaker 3: And it's a nineteen. That one is a nineteen four
Speaker 3: to ten fertilizer and that first number nitrogen is high nineteen,
Speaker 3: but it's not going to get the nineteen all at once.
Speaker 3: That nineteen is going to feed, feed and feed and
Speaker 3: feed over time, and that is an excellent way to
Speaker 3: produce good even growth. It also it cuts down when
Speaker 3: you're mowing. It makes it easier, you know, when you're
Speaker 3: doing your watering and things, you don't worry so much
Speaker 3: about washing all your nutrient away. Nitropas Superturf, like other
Speaker 3: night foss products, is available in a wide variety of places.
Speaker 3: In Chenny Forest carries it down in the Richmond Rosenberg area.
Speaker 3: You can find it a growers outlet up in Willis RCW.
Speaker 3: Nursery on Tombail Parkway where it comes into Sam Houston
Speaker 3: Beltway is another place that carries night foss products like
Speaker 3: the super Turf the silver bag from Nitrofos. We're going
Speaker 3: to go now to the phones and head to Cypress
Speaker 3: and talk to Ruth. Hello, Ruth, are you there?
Speaker 9: Ruth?
Speaker 3: All right, I'll tell you what. I Am going to
Speaker 3: put Ruth back on hold, see if we can fix that,
Speaker 3: and I'll check right back with her in just a moment.
Speaker 3: I mentioned in gended Forests being down in the Richmond
Speaker 3: Rosenberg area, and chenned Forest is one of those outstanding
Speaker 3: destination garden centers, and I really mean that. When I
Speaker 3: go in there, I feel like I've entered another world
Speaker 3: of just beauty and bounty and their vegetable section. By
Speaker 3: the way, it's time to be getting that fall vegetable
Speaker 3: garden go and we got to get those tomatoes and
Speaker 3: peppers and eggplants and things like that in. There's a
Speaker 3: lot of other things coming soon. They've got a wonderful
Speaker 3: herb selection too, extensive, like basil, several different kinds of basil.
Speaker 3: And if you were interested in a butterfly garden or
Speaker 3: a garden to attract birds or to bring in bees
Speaker 3: and other pollinators, they have an outstanding selection of plants
Speaker 3: to do that. A whole region. Of course, there's plants
Speaker 3: all over the garden center in chanted forests that attract
Speaker 3: those kind of things. But they have a whole section
Speaker 3: just dedicated to butterfly, lauval food sources for example, ad
Speaker 3: enchanted for So now they're on FM twenty seven fifty
Speaker 3: nine outside of Richmond, So if you're in Richmond, you're
Speaker 3: heading Sugarland direction up fifty nine. It's off to the right,
Speaker 3: FM twenty seven fifty nine. It's always a good day
Speaker 3: to be out there. I love visiting with them, Clay
Speaker 3: and the whole team out there. They have really created
Speaker 3: a lot of beauty and they have the expertise to
Speaker 3: help you have success. So if you hadn't been out there,
Speaker 3: I don't care where you live, you need to drive
Speaker 3: out there and see this place. It really really is
Speaker 3: cool and good house plans, good gift shop, all kinds
Speaker 3: of good things. Let's go back and we're going to
Speaker 3: give another shot here at Ruth in Cyprus. Are you there, Ruth? Ready, Ruth,
Speaker 3: If you're talking, I can't hear you, so I'm going
Speaker 3: to put you back on hold. We'll give it another
Speaker 3: try here. I'll tell you what, Ruth. But if you
Speaker 3: can hear me, go ahead. And just hang up and
Speaker 3: call back in and we will We'll try this again
Speaker 3: with a different line. I'm not sure what's exactly going
Speaker 3: on in that situation. I was out in the yard
Speaker 3: and my bird feeders are a little low, and that
Speaker 3: was on purpose. I've got a couple of types of
Speaker 3: bird feeders I have. The rain can get to them
Speaker 3: if it's really blowing and splashing a lot. I mean,
Speaker 3: they have a little roof over them. And I didn't
Speaker 3: want to put a bunch of bird seed out there
Speaker 3: and have it go bad and get moldy, because it'll
Speaker 3: do that. And if you've got that in your yard,
Speaker 3: you need to dump those out, clean them out, let
Speaker 3: them dry, and then put some fresh seed in them.
Speaker 3: And I've been feeding the birds a little bit here
Speaker 3: and there as we go. But wild Bird's Unlimited is
Speaker 3: going to have a selection of everything that you need
Speaker 3: for that. I like their nesting super Blend. I still
Speaker 3: am using the Nesting Superblend. It provides a lot of
Speaker 3: things that the birds need. It's loaded with sunflower chips, peanuts,
Speaker 3: dried mealworms, something called bark butter bits, safflower tree nuts,
Speaker 3: calcium carbonate too, which is important and I'm telling you
Speaker 3: that I was watching blue jays out there and cardinals
Speaker 3: at the feeder. I've got another feeder that the little
Speaker 3: birds tend to hang out at. It's harder for the
Speaker 3: big birds to get to. But anyway, all from Wallbirds Unlimited.
Speaker 3: You can go to WBU dot com forward slash Houston
Speaker 3: WBU dot com forward slash Houston find the wildbirds in
Speaker 3: their shoe. They're about six of them are in the
Speaker 3: Greater Houston area. Also, if you're about to take a
Speaker 3: little vacation trip this summer, grab one of their seed cylinders.
Speaker 3: It's a cylinder of firmly packed seeds. Looks like a
Speaker 3: little candle shape, you know, those little tall candles, thick
Speaker 3: wide candles. The birds have to kind of pull those
Speaker 3: seeds out of there, so it takes them a little
Speaker 3: while to do it. And when you come back from vacation,
Speaker 3: your birds are still having something to eat while you're gone. Plus,
Speaker 3: if you're home watching it, they takes them a little
Speaker 3: longer to get that seed out, so you get to
Speaker 3: watch them a little bit longer. I think that's fun too.
Speaker 3: From Wallbirds Unlimited, we love our birds here. I've got
Speaker 3: water features from oh by the way, now we've had
Speaker 3: a lot of rain this summer and birds are doing
Speaker 3: okay because of that. But when we're in hot, dry
Speaker 3: summer weather, you've got to make sure they have a
Speaker 3: source of water. We keep ours out, keep them not
Speaker 3: too far away from the feeders, and also where we
Speaker 3: can watch them. And I've got a couple of different
Speaker 3: water features that they really really enjoy if they can
Speaker 3: hear the sound of water, like if it's splashing, like
Speaker 3: we have a little multi tiered fountain where it's splashing.
Speaker 3: I enjoy that sound. It's so soothing and nice. But
Speaker 3: the birds, it brings them in and they love it.
Speaker 3: They absolutely love it. Here on Guardline, we love our
Speaker 3: feed stores too. You hear me talk about feed stores
Speaker 3: and down in If you're south of Houston, let's say
Speaker 3: you're in the League City area. League City feed is
Speaker 3: right there on Highway three, just a few blocks south
Speaker 3: of Highway ninety six in League City, so that whole area,
Speaker 3: this is your hometown feed store. Do you live in
Speaker 3: Bay Cliffs, San Leon or Lamart. Do you live in
Speaker 3: Dickenson or clear Lake City or Webster. Do you live
Speaker 3: in Santa Fe or ohkame Into Realey. League City Feed
Speaker 3: is your hometown feed store. They carry every fertilizer that
Speaker 3: I talk about here on Garden Line. They do. They've
Speaker 3: got them. They've got the soils, you know, they carry
Speaker 3: the heirloom soils, for example, and they just know how
Speaker 3: to provide exactly what you need to take care of
Speaker 3: whatever you have in your lawn. So are your garden
Speaker 3: so do you need an insecticide or a fungicide? Do
Speaker 3: you need an herbicide to fight weeds? Are you looking
Speaker 3: for organic products? They have those two there. Premium pet
Speaker 3: food is always available. They're at League City Feed. Do
Speaker 3: you have backyard chickens? They can get you set up
Speaker 3: on that and they're going to carry the sacks to
Speaker 3: the car for you. It's that old time feed service.
Speaker 3: This place has been around. I think their grandfather built
Speaker 3: it over forty years ago in an Okra patch. And
Speaker 3: anything that starts in an Okra patch can't go wrong.
Speaker 3: I mean that's my personal opinion because I'm a big
Speaker 3: fan of Okra. But the Thunderbergs, they've been running this
Speaker 3: three generations. Now here's our phone number two eight one
Speaker 3: three three two sixteen twelve. I'll give it to you
Speaker 3: again two eight, one three three two one six one
Speaker 3: two Open Monday through Saturday nine to six, so you
Speaker 3: can stop in after work. Closed on Sunday. So hey,
Speaker 3: here's your deal today. Get over there, grab the kind
Speaker 3: of stuff you need. I'll try one more time here
Speaker 3: to go to the phones. This time we're heading to
Speaker 3: Willis to talk to Kirk. Kurt. How are you this morning?
Speaker 3: We've got a break coming up, and let's see if
Speaker 3: we can help you before the break or we'll hold
Speaker 3: you aft too.
Speaker 17: Yes, Skip, I'll try to make it quick. I have
Speaker 17: the makeriage out here in Willis, Texas with just full
Speaker 17: of mature oak trees, and periodically I'll go out and.
Speaker 5: You know, trim them.
Speaker 17: And what's important to me, just for the visual effect
Speaker 17: is remove these little I've kind of little sucker branches
Speaker 17: that grow on the trunk until it.
Speaker 9: Gets to the pe.
Speaker 17: Know, they're one to three feet long, and I cut
Speaker 17: them off, and they always seem to grow back. Is
Speaker 17: there any prevention method?
Speaker 3: Are you? Are you cutting them off real close to
Speaker 3: the trunk or are you leaving a little bit.
Speaker 17: Of I learned that mistake for the first time. I
Speaker 17: didn't uh, you know, maybe a have bitch, and then
Speaker 17: I started getting real close.
Speaker 9: But they still.
Speaker 17: Kind of want to come back.
Speaker 3: You can, you can just cut them back to the trunk.
Speaker 3: There is something sucker stopper that you can buy, and
Speaker 3: there's another sucker spray. I can't remember what the name
Speaker 3: of it is. One of them is called sucker stopper.
Speaker 3: You sprayed on the fresh cut and it takes care
Speaker 3: of them. Listen, I got a heart break here for
Speaker 3: the news. If you want to continue this conversation, just
Speaker 3: hang on and I'll be back once we get through it.
Speaker 3: Thanks a lot, kirt. All right, folks, here we go.
Speaker 3: We'll be right back. You'd like to give us a call,
Speaker 3: My number is seven one three two one two k
Speaker 3: t r H. Seven one three two one two k
Speaker 3: t r H. Let's help you have a more beautiful garden,
Speaker 3: more bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape. That's what we're
Speaker 3: here for. Whatever kinds of questions indoor or outdoor plants,
Speaker 3: we'll talk about it. Be happy to do that. Try
Speaker 3: to get some good diagnosis and advice as we go along.
Speaker 3: Speaking of good advice, if you are looking for a
Speaker 3: product that you can hook up to your garden, hose
Speaker 3: and spray over the lawn and get really quick results.
Speaker 3: That would be Medina's has to grow line. They have
Speaker 3: a has to grow lawn for example, there's regular has
Speaker 3: to grow. There's a has to grow for lawns. It's
Speaker 3: got a like a three one two or yeah, three
Speaker 3: one two type ratio a fertilizer that is exactly what
Speaker 3: your lawn needs. They also have a product that's newer, new,
Speaker 3: it's newer. It's a brand new one that they've got
Speaker 3: called super Grow Plus. And I think, I think a
Speaker 3: lot of all of these products, but the Supergrill Plus
Speaker 3: is a sixteen zero two. That's zero that middle number phosphorus.
Speaker 3: Phosphorus tends to stick around, and there's not a problem
Speaker 3: not adding phosphorus every time we fertilize. In fact, in
Speaker 3: some parts of the country they are they actually have
Speaker 3: laws to where you can't just use phosphorus without the
Speaker 3: equivalent of prescription, believe that or not, because it washes
Speaker 3: off into places. Florida has a number of waterways are
Speaker 3: concerned about. Chesapeake Bay up there in the northeast around
Speaker 3: the DC area is another example of those kinds of places. Well,
Speaker 3: this one it works great for here sixteen zero two.
Speaker 3: It's got a slow release fertilizer in it. About a
Speaker 3: fifth of the fertile of the nitrogen in it is
Speaker 3: in a slow release form. It's got iron in a
Speaker 3: chelated form, meaning the iron has a little bodyguard so
Speaker 3: the soil can't steal it and tie it up, but
Speaker 3: the plant can have it. It's got seaweed extract in it.
Speaker 3: It's got molasses in it, it's got humic acid in it.
Speaker 3: It's got all the kinds of things to stimulate microbial
Speaker 3: activity and stimulate your lawn growth.
Speaker 15: Uh.
Speaker 3: If you've got areas that are struggling, I have an
Speaker 3: area that had some take a root rot due to
Speaker 3: heavy heavy shade. I've been working my way back out
Speaker 3: of that and get that garden hose. Go over there
Speaker 3: and just give it a quick fix with that, and
Speaker 3: it works really well. Supergrow plus. If you return your clippings,
Speaker 3: you can do it about twice during the summertime and
Speaker 3: I'll cover it. If you are bagging your clippings, number one,
Speaker 3: stop it. Don't do that. You're throwing away free fertilizer.
Speaker 3: If you're bagging your clippings, probably need to do it
Speaker 3: about three times. During the summertime. But supergrow plus for Medina,
Speaker 3: a product that works, a product that I personally can
Speaker 3: vouch for. You are listening to Guardline and our phone
Speaker 3: number if you wish to give us a call is
Speaker 3: seven to one three two one two kt RH seven
Speaker 3: one three two one two kt RH. You know the
Speaker 3: the garden centers in the Houston area, the Independent, we
Speaker 3: call them Mom and Pops. Those garden centers are outstanding
Speaker 3: here and I'm telling you I've been, you know, all
Speaker 3: over Texas to garden centers, and I love when I travel.
Speaker 3: I am a gardening or horticultural tourist. You know, I'm
Speaker 3: going to find the the garden centers in a town.
Speaker 3: I'm going to find the botanical gardens in a town
Speaker 3: and visit them. I was out in North Carolina at
Speaker 3: the Ralston Arboretum in the University of North Carolina and
Speaker 3: it just outstanding. Love to do that. Well, here in Houston,
Speaker 3: we've got more than anybody. I'm telling you that. I mean,
Speaker 3: I've been to these big cities, north, south, east, West,
Speaker 3: and central. Here in Houston we have places that are
Speaker 3: worth driving for and people drive a long way. I've
Speaker 3: run into people all the time that if from out
Speaker 3: of state, maybe they're visiting family, or maybe they drove
Speaker 3: from Austin to get over here to go to see
Speaker 3: some of our outstanding garden centers. Example of that is
Speaker 3: Buchanans Native Plants done in the Heights, right in the
Speaker 3: big middle of town. Buchanan's Plants Native Plants is on
Speaker 3: Eleventh Street in the Heights. Their website and this is
Speaker 3: please write this down because it is an outstanding website,
Speaker 3: Buchanansplants dot Com. There's advice there, there's videos there, there's
Speaker 3: lists of plants there, there's descriptions of plants. Buchanan specializes
Speaker 3: in natives, but they have everything. They have everything. Do
Speaker 3: you want house plants? Go check out their selection. You
Speaker 3: will agree that it is one of the absolute best
Speaker 3: selections of house plants you're going to find anywhere in
Speaker 3: the region. Buchanansplants dot Com on Eleventh Street in the Heights.
Speaker 3: Do you need the fertilizers I talk about on guardline.
Speaker 3: They're there, high quality plants, educated, helpful people and a
Speaker 3: really fun shopping experience too. Of Buchanan's Plants in the Heights.
Speaker 3: Remember website, Buchanans Plants dot com click around that thing,
Speaker 3: and you'll see why I think so much of it.
Speaker 3: You are listening to garden Line our phone number seven
Speaker 3: one three two one two five eight seven four seven
Speaker 3: one three two one two fifty eight seventy four. Okay,
Speaker 3: we're going to have a quick garden Line quiz for
Speaker 3: those of you who've listened to garden Line more than once,
Speaker 3: because I say this every time. What is the most
Speaker 3: important thing that we do to have success with plants? Now,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of important things. It's important to get
Speaker 3: plants that want to grow. Here, it's essential to get
Speaker 3: plants that want to grow. It's important to put plants
Speaker 3: in the amount of drainage they need. There are a
Speaker 3: few plants that can take a swamp. Most of them can't.
Speaker 3: It's important to, uh, let's see, get plants the amount
Speaker 3: of light that they need. It's important to fertilize. But
Speaker 3: what is the most important thing we do when we're
Speaker 3: going to have success? And the answer is build the soil.
Speaker 3: I like to say it this way. Plants live in
Speaker 3: their roots, and if you think about it that way,
Speaker 3: you'll reckon.
Speaker 1: I know we do.
Speaker 3: All these things on top of the ground are pruning
Speaker 3: and that's our visual of the plant. But underground, that's
Speaker 3: where it all happens. That's where the microbial activity that
Speaker 3: so stimulates and supports root growth is. That's where it's
Speaker 3: either drained or not drained. You'd have a raise better
Speaker 3: you don't, And if you've got a soggy spot, you
Speaker 3: better have a raise. Bit. That's where the organic materials
Speaker 3: are put in. And Nature's Way Resources, you know John
Speaker 3: Ferguson in Ferguson up in Nature's Way. They they've known
Speaker 3: this a long time. John was Nature's Way Resources.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 3: It was the place where rose soil was born. That's
Speaker 3: the place where the leaf moow. Compost we talk about
Speaker 3: all the time is compost, top dressing, and many other mixes.
Speaker 3: Do you have a veggie garden, They've got a mix
Speaker 3: for it. You can go to a Nature's Way. They're
Speaker 3: up there on Sherwood Circle south of Conroe. So if
Speaker 3: you're driving up forty five where fourteen eighty eight comes
Speaker 3: in from the left, you just turn right across the
Speaker 3: tracks and you're there. You can take a trailer, take
Speaker 3: a pickup, get a bulk amount of it. If you
Speaker 3: want to load up on bags, you can get it,
Speaker 3: and around town a number of our places carry their
Speaker 3: bags as well. It doesn't matter what kind of a
Speaker 3: mix you're looking for. Nature's Way Resources has it, and
Speaker 3: they've got they've got some great deals going on. They've
Speaker 3: got a deal right now that if you tell them
Speaker 3: that you heard about it on guarden Line, you're going
Speaker 3: to get a significant discount. And this includes the soil, blends,
Speaker 3: the composts, the multius covers the whole nine yards, and
Speaker 3: you need to don't forget to mention you heard about
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Speaker 3: Monday through Friday today eight am to two pm. Close tomorrow.
Speaker 3: So here's your chance. Whatever you do, if you want
Speaker 3: to have success, you've got to start with the soil.
Speaker 3: You may the soil right, and that means organic matter,
Speaker 3: that means drainage, that means nutrients that the plants need.
Speaker 3: You get that right, and it's gonna look, it's gonna
Speaker 3: make everything. You got a green thumb, you just have
Speaker 3: an informed thumb, an informed thumb that says, fix the
Speaker 3: saw first for success with plants natures. Will hope you
Speaker 3: do that. We're gonna take a little break here and
Speaker 3: I will be right back if you want to get
Speaker 3: on the boards. We've got to open board here. Wo'd
Speaker 3: be a good chance to get in without having to
Speaker 3: wait seven one three two one two kt r H.
Speaker 3: Hold all right, folks, that's just a little bit of
Speaker 3: a kickback remembering Randy Lemon. That band is called the
Speaker 3: lemon Heads, And I know Simon and Garfuncle did Missus Robinson,
Speaker 3: but like that little upbeat version by the Lemonheads. Uh,
Speaker 3: we fondly remember our friend Randy Lemon, who held this
Speaker 3: seat for many, many years, just was an icon in
Speaker 3: the greater Houston area. I know that I very beloved
Speaker 3: and really one of the reasons that Garden Line has
Speaker 3: become the show that it's become, as through the many
Speaker 3: years of Randy's work as well as the people that
Speaker 3: came before Randy. This this show has been going on
Speaker 3: since the nineteen fifties. That is an unusual run for
Speaker 3: a gardening show to be able to have. And I
Speaker 3: do not hold that lightly. I promise you for sure.
Speaker 3: We are going to now head straight out to the phones.
Speaker 3: A segment, and we're going to go to cot Road
Speaker 3: to talk to Larry. Hello, Larry, Good morning.
Speaker 9: Skip.
Speaker 12: Last weekend, you had a gentleman call in asking about
Speaker 12: fast growing trees, and you had a good explanation to
Speaker 12: maybe not get the fastest growing tree. But you named
Speaker 12: three or four trees, and.
Speaker 9: I was not in the position to where I could
Speaker 9: make some notes on those trees.
Speaker 12: What did you recommend and also where would you recommend
Speaker 12: getting them?
Speaker 3: Okay, you're talking about me naming trees that you should
Speaker 3: plant that grow fast.
Speaker 11: Yes, we should plant.
Speaker 12: Yeah, Well you said he was named something that was
Speaker 12: going to grow six feet a year or something, and
Speaker 12: you said, well, something that grows that fast, it's gonna
Speaker 12: last very long.
Speaker 3: So well, grow fast, die young, is the way I
Speaker 3: like to put it. They folly about the time you
Speaker 3: should have a beautiful tree that's of great value to
Speaker 3: the value of your property. You're pulling them out to
Speaker 3: start over, and that's just a huge, huge mistake. Okay, fast, right,
Speaker 3: trees that grow moderately fast that if you've give them
Speaker 3: good care, will be very long lived as well because
Speaker 3: the species is well adapted. Here not a lot of
Speaker 3: pest problems and things would include red oaks. If you
Speaker 3: are in a very good, well drained soil, shoe mard
Speaker 3: s h u m a r d schumard red oak
Speaker 3: is a good one if you are in a soil
Speaker 3: that sometimes is a little on the soggy side, not
Speaker 3: only for soggy sauce, but this one can take saggi sauce.
Speaker 3: Is the nut tall red oak n utta. I think
Speaker 3: it's one L. I need to look that up. Nut
Speaker 3: tall n u t t a L. Let's just say
Speaker 3: that's close. That one would be a good one. The
Speaker 3: Chinese elm. Chinese elm has beautiful You've seen these all
Speaker 3: around town. Especially they put them in parking lots because
Speaker 3: they're so tough, but you can put it in. It's
Speaker 3: got a kind of a rusty colored and gray, splotchy bark.
Speaker 3: It breaks off in little chunks, very thin, kind of
Speaker 3: like a crape myrtle doesn't have real thick bark. It's smooth.
Speaker 3: This one is kind of like that, and it little
Speaker 3: flex breakof and it's it's rusty and gray. It's very
Speaker 3: beautiful bark. So even in the winter. I think it's
Speaker 3: a pretty tree. Gross grows pretty fast and spreads out
Speaker 3: really well, casts a life shade, which I like because
Speaker 3: if you want to grow grass or other things underneath,
Speaker 3: it can do that, but it's still a shade that
Speaker 3: will keep you cool. Those are the ones I remember
Speaker 3: talking about. I'm trying to think what else I might have.
Speaker 12: You mentioned an ash also, I just I remember something
Speaker 12: about an ash.
Speaker 3: Yeah, green ash. There's one we call Texas ash. That
Speaker 3: may be a little hard to find one called that,
Speaker 3: but it's a it's more of a native to this
Speaker 3: this region, the region be in Texas. Uh, Texas ash
Speaker 3: or green ash are good. Arizona that was planted decades ago.
Speaker 3: Is probably the worst trash tree we got. Well, let's
Speaker 3: just say it's in the top five. But green ash
Speaker 3: is a decent tree for fast growing and whatnot. Let's see,
Speaker 3: there's there's gonna be some other options. They're just not
Speaker 3: hitting my head right now.
Speaker 12: You go to a where do you recommend?
Speaker 3: I would where are Let's see, you're up in the
Speaker 3: Conroy area.
Speaker 15: You're gonna.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're gonna have some well, they're gonna have some
Speaker 3: trees out there at A and A on the east
Speaker 3: side of Montgomery. You could call them, say, what do
Speaker 3: you have and what can you get and if they
Speaker 3: don't have anything, probably bring them in. Uh, you know,
Speaker 3: if you're if you're just looking at a place that
Speaker 3: grows their own trees up and they grow them. Oh gosh,
Speaker 3: where's the Renaissance Festival Plannersville?
Speaker 14: Right right?
Speaker 3: Okay, all right area, But it's r CW Nursery. That's
Speaker 3: where two forty nine and belt Way eight come together.
Speaker 3: And they can bring in any of the quality trees
Speaker 3: they grow, and I know they have not to all
Speaker 3: oak and read other quality trees, many types. You could
Speaker 3: give them a call it RCW Nursery. They might even
Speaker 3: you know, they may even you know, have you just
Speaker 3: go pick it up up at the farm. I don't know,
Speaker 3: they may have you come down. Probably have you come
Speaker 3: down to the garden center to get it. Okay, Going
Speaker 3: on on tree places of urden tree farms. Another good one.
Speaker 9: There's one you know, I.
Speaker 12: Didn't ask you. I wish you mentioned something with the
Speaker 12: b vernon Okay. I think they have two or three locations.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the one's closest to you is going to be
Speaker 3: out there on Barker Cypress on the west side of Houston,
Speaker 3: just a little north of Ien on Barker Cypress.
Speaker 9: Okay, I appreciated the huge tree.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sure, thanks for calling. And boy, I just commend
Speaker 3: you for asking, because a lot of people don't ask,
Speaker 3: and then they call me when the trees got all
Speaker 3: these problems, and it's better to ask. Thank you.
Speaker 9: Sounds good things, all right?
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, we you know, now's the time when we
Speaker 3: need to be doing what we need to do to
Speaker 3: have success with our lawns. If you haven't fertilized this summer,
Speaker 3: how about some Nelson Slow and Easy. Slow and Easy
Speaker 3: by Nelson Plant Food is an outstanding fertilizer. It's going
Speaker 3: to feed for like over three months, even four months.
Speaker 3: You're not gonna fertilize again until fall. Your fall application.
Speaker 3: When you put on Slow and Easy, it is it
Speaker 3: is one that helps lower the pH a little bit
Speaker 3: too up there at the soul surfits. It's got that
Speaker 3: in it, and it's got those those chemistries that allow
Speaker 3: a gradual release of nitrogen over time. Nutri Star line
Speaker 3: by Nelson Plant Food things like the Hibscus and flowering
Speaker 3: tropicals like the nutri Star for indoor plants. Many different
Speaker 3: nutri Star in their color Star line and these are
Speaker 3: these come in the low canisters or also some of
Speaker 3: them by the bag as well, and you they're widely
Speaker 3: available and they're all excellent products by Nelson plant Food.
Speaker 3: Visiting with Dean the other day talking about some of
Speaker 3: the new products and some of the things going on there,
Speaker 3: and they're always up to improving and creating more new
Speaker 3: quality things there at Nel some plant food. We're going
Speaker 3: to head out now to College Station, Texas and talk
Speaker 3: to Andrew. Hello, Andrew, Hey.
Speaker 9: Good morning.
Speaker 18: Got a question here.
Speaker 4: New to the Brass Valley and uh, first time in
Speaker 4: my life I've had mutographs, so I'm learning a little
Speaker 4: bit about it. I know I can kind of basically
Speaker 4: treat it like San Augustine as sour as the free
Speaker 4: and the feeding and everything like that, and that's worked
Speaker 4: out pretty well for me.
Speaker 3: Question though, is proper height to cut?
Speaker 4: I've been keeping it a little bit higher, and I've
Speaker 4: heard some people say, oh, you need to cut the
Speaker 4: stuff a little lower.
Speaker 3: Thoughts on the height to keep bermuda at I'm assuming
Speaker 3: you've got a Semidorf bermuda and that's I'm about eighty
Speaker 3: five percent sure that's what you got in the lawn.
Speaker 3: If you sow it at about two inches. That's probably
Speaker 3: a good height for it. You can go lower, but
Speaker 3: you got to mow more often for it to look good.
Speaker 3: Bermuda grass, when you mow it regularly, it makes a
Speaker 3: beautiful density. But if you let it grow and then
Speaker 3: cut it way back, it's like you're cutting off the green,
Speaker 3: which tends to be at the top of the grass plant,
Speaker 3: and then you have all this brown, twiggy stuff. It'll regreen,
Speaker 3: but it looks bad when you've missed a mowing. So
Speaker 3: you got to mow regular The shorter you mow, the
Speaker 3: more often, you know, and if you get real short
Speaker 3: Josh Andrew, you're going to be probably using a real
Speaker 3: type mower, one of those candy cane blades as opposed
Speaker 3: to a propeller blade. That's what they do on the
Speaker 3: golf courses for the top quality.
Speaker 9: Okay, perfect, I appreciate it. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3: All Right, you take care, good five folks.
Speaker 9: Here, here we go.
Speaker 3: We're putting another one in this hour in the books.
Speaker 3: I'll be back next hour, Josh. You'll be our first
Speaker 3: up when we come back. In the meantime, I want
Speaker 3: to just leave you with remember when it comes to
Speaker 3: successive plants is about the soil. I remember to pick
Speaker 3: things that want to grow. Your plantam white and you
Speaker 3: can have successful. Promise you from as green and we'll
Speaker 3: make it greener by informing it on Guarden Line.
Speaker 1: K t r H Garden Line does not necessarily endorse
Speaker 1: any of the products or services advertised on this program.
Speaker 1: Welcome to kt r H Garden Line with Skip Rict.
Speaker 3: It's just watching a look back back to the garden Line.
Speaker 3: We got some plant talk to do here, so let's
Speaker 3: get going on plant talking. Glad to have you with
Speaker 3: us today, by the way, looking forward to helping you
Speaker 3: have a more bountiful garden and a more beautiful landscape.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know one way you can do that is by
Speaker 3: finding a quality garden center. And and you know that
Speaker 3: it makes all the difference in the world. There are
Speaker 3: places of I'll sell you a plant, and they'll also
Speaker 3: sell you a hammer in a two by four, and
Speaker 3: you know the painting things and whatnot. When you're looking
Speaker 3: at buying plants, you want to buy them from a
Speaker 3: place that knows what they're talking about. And in Jenny
Speaker 3: Gardens down in the Richmond Rosenberg area is a place
Speaker 3: like that. When you go to in Chenne Gardens, you
Speaker 3: know the plants are going to be in top shape.
Speaker 3: They are going to be species and varieties or cultivars
Speaker 3: that want to grow here. You know that people that
Speaker 3: wait on you, that come talk to you are going
Speaker 3: to be friendly and they are going to be knowledgeable,
Speaker 3: and they're going to help you have success. Now in
Speaker 3: Jenny Gardens, if you haven't been there, it's on FM
Speaker 3: three fifty nine. So if you're in Richmond and you
Speaker 3: head toward Katie, that is the direction you want to
Speaker 3: be FM three point fifty nine north of Richmond. Here's
Speaker 3: a website, Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com. It's an excellent website.
Speaker 3: You need to check it out. Enchanted Gardens Richmond dot com.
Speaker 3: It's an unforgettable experience to go to visit their garden center.
Speaker 3: Their selection of plants, trees and shrubs, their knowledge it's
Speaker 3: just unmatched in the Katy area. And so all of
Speaker 3: you that are looking for some special plants, some maybe
Speaker 3: some bling to go with your garden, like a fountain,
Speaker 3: a chimes, a whimsical garden art. They've got that and
Speaker 3: so much more. When you walk around there, plan some
Speaker 3: time for your visit because it is a wide spread out,
Speaker 3: beautiful place and it just like you just need time
Speaker 3: to take it all in because there is everything you
Speaker 3: possibly want. They're going to carry the fertilizers I talk
Speaker 3: about on Guardline, They're going to carry the soils I
Speaker 3: talk about on guard Line, and the mulches I talk
Speaker 3: about on garden Line. They're open Monday through Saturday, eight
Speaker 3: to five on Sunday from ten am to four pm,
Speaker 3: so you can get out there today and tomorrow as
Speaker 3: well and pick up some of the things that will
Speaker 3: help you have success. And one of the things you
Speaker 3: pick up when you go to Unchanted Gardens is quality, advice,
Speaker 3: ice and instruction. If you got a problem, put it
Speaker 3: in a bag, bring it in, take a picture of whatever,
Speaker 3: show it to them so they can help you have success.
Speaker 3: They've been doing that since nineteen ninety five when the
Speaker 3: Lindermann family, uh, you know, when in Chenny Gardens opened up.
Speaker 3: It's a place that you do need to visit. And
Speaker 3: I'm telling you people know and they take their friends
Speaker 3: there there. The other day and somebody from Austin, Texas
Speaker 3: was over there shopping because they'd heard about it and
Speaker 3: they wanted to see it, and their mouth was hanging
Speaker 3: wide open. That's the effect that has on people. All Right,
Speaker 3: you're listening to garden Line our phone number seven one
Speaker 3: three two one two fifty eight seventy four. We're going
Speaker 3: to go out to Josh in Spring Branch, Texas and
Speaker 3: talk to Josh. Hey. Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: Josh, Hey, schipe.
Speaker 11: I appreciate it.
Speaker 19: I got a question on a lat peliciana peach. When
Speaker 19: I planted it, I was doing it based off of
Speaker 19: the you know, projected sigh that w ten to twelve feet.
Speaker 19: There was a little fight up against my fence because
Speaker 19: it's getting bigger than those ranges that they indicated, And
Speaker 19: so I'm serious on is it okay to just give
Speaker 19: it a really hard pruiting and take the whole tree
Speaker 19: back to some of the bigger branches and kind of
Speaker 19: regain its size over the next couple of years. Or
Speaker 19: is that bad crudent practice for a peach tree?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Good, good question, Josh. How big did they tell
Speaker 3: you it was going to get?
Speaker 19: I mean, I'm planning it a couple of years ago,
Speaker 19: but I think the tag sent like ten to twelve feet,
Speaker 19: and so I gave it kind of tick feet off
Speaker 19: of my fences kind of. It's in a corner section
Speaker 19: in my yard. It's starting to creep into the neighbor's
Speaker 19: yard a little bit.
Speaker 3: It's okay. They they don't want free peaches, you know,
Speaker 3: I told them.
Speaker 19: I told them, if you guys ever need to prune it,
Speaker 19: go ahead. But you know, I'm just serious. What's the
Speaker 19: best way to manage.
Speaker 3: The Yeah, sure, okay, So in good going conditions, that
Speaker 3: can get big, and that's for sure. I wouldn't hack
Speaker 3: it way back. That creates a weak branch structure. But
Speaker 3: if you'll start with, let's just use the limb going
Speaker 3: into your neighbor's yard. Come back from that limb to
Speaker 3: far enough to where there's a side branch that if
Speaker 3: you pruned it back just above that side branch, that
Speaker 3: that would be acceptable. And what that's going to do
Speaker 3: is it's going to stimulate new growth. Peaches produce on
Speaker 3: one year old wood, meaning the shoots that are growing
Speaker 3: this year will fruit next year and then they'll never
Speaker 3: fruit again. Branches that come off of those next year
Speaker 3: will fruit the following year. So every time you prune back,
Speaker 3: if you can, rather than just hack it off like
Speaker 3: the end of a broom handle, find a side shoot
Speaker 3: and cut it back to that. Like think of it
Speaker 3: as a highway system where you're going to block the highway,
Speaker 3: so you do it just past an exit ramp. That's
Speaker 3: kind of what we're looking at visually on these branches,
Speaker 3: and that is a better way to prune. And as
Speaker 3: you stay with that, you can keep it in bounds.
Speaker 3: But just remember there's sometimes when you take a branch
Speaker 3: all the way back to where it attaches off the
Speaker 3: main scoffolds, and new branches will grow because you're always
Speaker 3: wanting to produce new wood toward the inside of the tree.
Speaker 3: That's why we don't let stuff go up in the
Speaker 3: top of the tree to shade out the interior. That
Speaker 3: interior ought to be getting like so that it can
Speaker 3: be fruitful. Yea, all right, well, good luck.
Speaker 12: Hey.
Speaker 3: If you go to the Aggie Horticulture website, it's Aggie
Speaker 3: hyphen Horticulture. I think there's a fruit and nut button
Speaker 3: on the very front page and if you click on that,
Speaker 3: there's a whole publication dedicated to peaches and plums and
Speaker 3: how to prune them. And so that may be also
Speaker 3: helpful for you to take a look at all. Right, thanks, Josh,
Speaker 3: I appreciate the call. You bet take care. You know,
Speaker 3: we talk about the importance of getting a quality fertilizer
Speaker 3: down in your garden, and I talk about slow release
Speaker 3: products all the time because they gradually release over time.
Speaker 3: Sweet green from nitrofoss is not slow release. It will release,
Speaker 3: go ahead and dissolve and release away. But here's what
Speaker 3: you do with sweet green. Sweet green is an organic
Speaker 3: type fertilizer that really stimulates beneficial microbes because it's a
Speaker 3: molasses based and organic gardeners have known for a long time.
Speaker 3: Molasses stimulates the microbial activity in the soil, being a
Speaker 3: carbon source that those bugs. If you will need in
Speaker 3: the soil, sweet green, you just take the application of it.
Speaker 3: It's about ten percent nitrogen, about eleven percent nitrogen. Cut
Speaker 3: it in half, put about five pounds on now if
Speaker 3: you haven't fertilized in a while, and then wait about
Speaker 3: six to eight weeks up to two months, and then
Speaker 3: put the other five pounds on and that spreads that
Speaker 3: release out over time. You get much more even growth,
Speaker 3: but you get sweet is a wonderful, wonderful fertilizer works well,
Speaker 3: wonderful fragrance to it and it provides that boost that
Speaker 3: your lawn needs. Just remember when you apply it, let's
Speaker 3: spread it out in a couple and you put in
Speaker 3: three applications if you want it, but just a little
Speaker 3: bit over time to help support that good growth. We're
Speaker 3: going to have to take a break here for the news.
Speaker 3: Alan in Beytown, you will be the first when we
Speaker 3: come right back. Welcome back to Guardline. Good to heavy
Speaker 3: with us. We are here to talk about the things
Speaker 3: that help you have a more beautiful lawn, a more
Speaker 3: bountiful garden, a more beautiful landscape. By the way, if
Speaker 3: you want a beautiful landscape on day, who can do it?
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Speaker 3: work for you, they will do drainage work for you.
Speaker 3: They can do hardscapes. You know, like stone walkways and
Speaker 3: patios for example. They can do landscape lighting. They can
Speaker 3: do quarterly bed maintenance. You know, come in. You just
Speaker 3: go look these beds. I can't get them. I can't
Speaker 3: keep them up. They're not looking right. I want you
Speaker 3: to come in. I want you to weed them, to
Speaker 3: fertilize them. Check the irrigation, do any trimming needed, put
Speaker 3: some malts down, change out the flowers season as seasonally,
Speaker 3: you know, to do it twice a year, three times
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Speaker 3: We're going to go now out to Baytown and talk
Speaker 3: to Allen. Hello Ellen, and welcome to Guardline.
Speaker 18: Good morning. My question is brand new home, just moved
Speaker 18: in last week. Front yard is in a pretty good shape.
Speaker 18: I can deal with that backyard into a blank canvas,
Speaker 18: sand and weeds. But my main issue is I have
Speaker 18: about I could be underestimating over thousands and thousands of
Speaker 18: snails everywhere. I need to get rid of one.
Speaker 3: I mean, they love the rain we've been having. If
Speaker 3: you get.
Speaker 18: Go ahead, do you want to say about three weeks
Speaker 18: ago and the first looked at the place. I mean,
Speaker 18: they were everywhere to being called this rain kit even
Speaker 18: before barhited.
Speaker 3: But well they they they love decaying organic matter of course, moistures.
Speaker 3: They're happy with that.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 3: What you're going to need to do is get some bait.
Speaker 3: That's the best way to approach it. There are a
Speaker 3: number of products out there that are snail and slug baits.
Speaker 3: One of the more common ones is called slug O
Speaker 3: s l U g g O. There's also a Slugo plus,
Speaker 3: a Slugo plus that also has spinosa. By the way,
Speaker 3: Slugo is an iron an iron compound that causes a
Speaker 3: terminal case of constipation and snails. Isn't that a pleasant?
Speaker 3: But Slugo plus, as Spinos said, and the bait as well. Uh,
Speaker 3: and with the Spino said, in the bait, it'll also
Speaker 3: get some other insects that are out there as well.
Speaker 3: But one of those two, there are other slug baits.
Speaker 3: You know, you go to an ACE hardware store. You've
Speaker 3: got several ACE hardware stores there in the Cypress area.
Speaker 3: One on Jones road. You know, M and D is
Speaker 3: a low further north up in the Cypress area.
Speaker 12: Just h.
Speaker 3: Just swing by there and sandy to snail bait and
Speaker 3: they'll point you to it. Now, snall boat needs to
Speaker 3: be fresh, so don't store it in an old hot
Speaker 3: you know building behind the house.
Speaker 5: Uh it.
Speaker 3: And you need to put it out in small quantities
Speaker 3: in several different places because snails, you know, they don't
Speaker 3: run back and forth across the yard.
Speaker 14: Uh.
Speaker 3: And just if it rains, dump it out and get
Speaker 3: some fresh bait and put it in because it's important
Speaker 3: that the bait is attractive to the snails, and old bait,
Speaker 3: soggy baits and stuff are not going to be attractive.
Speaker 18: Okay. I can do all over the picket fence, everywhere,
Speaker 18: up and down the wall of the house.
Speaker 17: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Well, it's only when they chewr plants that there are problems.
Speaker 3: You know, it's not necessarily a problem. You know, they say,
Speaker 3: when life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Have you ever
Speaker 3: heard of s cargo?
Speaker 9: Ah?
Speaker 18: Yeah, I won't touch it, not on my plate.
Speaker 3: I don't even know what kind of snails they make that.
Speaker 3: Out of keeping that beat attitude here on guard Line, Okay,
Speaker 3: thanks for your under control. Yeah, advice is free sometimes
Speaker 3: the free advice may be. And that's so sure about that.
Speaker 3: All right, We're going to go now out to Cypress
Speaker 3: and talk to Tom. Hello, Tom.
Speaker 9: More, can you hear me? Okay, we're sounding kind of okay,
Speaker 9: you're sounding front of you on this end, but anyway,
Speaker 9: I'm yeah, that's good. Okay. I've bought some cucumber seeds
Speaker 9: off a rack here this spring and planted them, and
Speaker 9: they said they were English cucumbers, said they're both less
Speaker 9: and long slender. But when they when I grew some cucumbers,
Speaker 9: they're they're not like that at all. They grow about
Speaker 9: almost completely spherical, and they get about five inches in diameter,
Speaker 9: and I've never seen cucumbers like that. I like them.
Speaker 9: They're real crisped and they taste good. But can you
Speaker 9: tell me what those are so I can buy some
Speaker 9: next year? Or alternately, how would I treat my seeds
Speaker 9: so that I can just save some seeds and grow
Speaker 9: the next year. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know the name of the variety you got,
Speaker 3: but there are those kinds of cucumbers. Are these by
Speaker 3: any chance to they are? They kind of yellowish when
Speaker 3: they're still right before they get all old and and
Speaker 3: tough skinned, they do they turn yellow as opposed to No.
Speaker 9: They were the only one to turn yellow run I
Speaker 9: was laid in the water and went bad. But they
Speaker 9: stay kind of light green and they're not They're not
Speaker 9: waxy feeling. They just kind of a dry skinned rather
Speaker 9: than like the ones you buy in the store kind of.
Speaker 3: You know what I do is there's some great seed
Speaker 3: companies out there. This is gonna be an unusual thing
Speaker 3: that you don't just buy at every garden center. I
Speaker 3: would probably do a search for round cucumber seed seeds
Speaker 3: and places like oh gosh, h high chances would be
Speaker 3: Johnny's Seed Company. It's up in Maine, but they have
Speaker 3: a huge selection of stuff. Who else might have that.
Speaker 3: You might find something like that at parks or Burpies
Speaker 3: one of those seed companies to get those seeds in.
Speaker 3: But I do I do a search for it.
Speaker 9: Okay, Well, how about saving the seeds and growing next year.
Speaker 9: I mean that's what people have done for thousands of years.
Speaker 3: I guess, yeah, that should work if it's not a hybrid.
Speaker 3: If it's a hybrid, then the offspring will be different
Speaker 3: than mama, they'll be yea more reflecting the parentage, you know,
Speaker 3: up the line. So you guys, if you like them,
Speaker 3: it's worth the try. And you know, I mean, I
Speaker 3: don't know if you want to become the next plant
Speaker 3: breeder in the world. But you could always plant a
Speaker 3: bunch and if some are around, some aren't, pull up
Speaker 3: all the ones that aren't round and save the seeds
Speaker 3: on the one that are round. You do that two
Speaker 3: or three times and you probably end up with a
Speaker 3: pretty stable seed seed.
Speaker 9: Yeah, but what's a good way to store them? I mean,
Speaker 9: I've got a few. I just put them in a
Speaker 9: little paper cup, put them in a refrigerator. But what's
Speaker 9: a good way to save them so they're viable?
Speaker 3: Yeah, put them on the counter, let them dry out completely.
Speaker 3: It's very important to get all the water out of
Speaker 3: the seed. Okay, several weeks on the counter to do that.
Speaker 3: Then put them in something that's air tight. It can
Speaker 3: be one of those little containers that you put frozen
Speaker 3: food down with the pop down lids, you know, that
Speaker 3: are air tight. If you have these little packets of
Speaker 3: the descont that typically come in vitamins and electronics, you
Speaker 3: get those little packets to keep moisture box. Throw those
Speaker 3: in there because they'll help with that. And then refrigerator
Speaker 3: storage is fine. You should get several years out of
Speaker 3: cucumbers and stored in the refrigerator. Just remember when you
Speaker 3: take it out, let it warm to room temperature before
Speaker 3: you open it up. Otherwise it'll be like anything cold.
Speaker 3: You pull out the refrigerator, you start to get condensation
Speaker 3: on it, and you just defeated. You're trying to keep
Speaker 3: it dry. So let it let it hit room temperature
Speaker 3: before you open it up.
Speaker 9: Okay, Well, I appreciate the information, and I like these things.
Speaker 9: I mean, slice them in there. I call them a
Speaker 9: garden cookie. You know, they're just really good at a
Speaker 9: refrigerator by a half an inch thick and they're five
Speaker 9: inch diam cookie. So anyway, I appreciate it.
Speaker 17: Thanks.
Speaker 3: The last thing you need to do is name them
Speaker 3: Tom's softball cucumbers and uh then you can you can
Speaker 3: be famous and sell them like that.
Speaker 9: Yeah. Okay, I thought you're going to say I need
Speaker 9: to bring you half of them, but I could do
Speaker 9: that too.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I am not doing my duties. Absolutely,
Speaker 3: this sounds kind of fast. About half of the produce
Speaker 3: or two seeds. Either way, Well we'll call it even.
Speaker 9: Thanks Tom, all right, well thanks to all right, bye
Speaker 9: bye bye.
Speaker 3: That's good.
Speaker 11: I like that.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: You know, the ACE Hardware stores are all over the
Speaker 3: Greater Houston area, and I was telling somebody earlier. You know,
Speaker 3: it's go to ACE up in the Cypress area. You
Speaker 3: know I mentioned too, that are right up there. You
Speaker 3: head down south the Cypress and you got Langham Creek,
Speaker 3: you know, in the Barker Cypress or the Copperfield area
Speaker 3: rather a hardware. There's forty eight hardware stores around Houston.
Speaker 3: And when you go into ACE, you know you're going
Speaker 3: to find insecticite, fertilizer, funge, your side herbicide to control weeds.
Speaker 3: You're going to find all the tools you need. You're
Speaker 3: gonna find a lot of other products, organic, synthetic. It's
Speaker 3: all there at ACE, as well as folks that'll greet you,
Speaker 3: smile and point you in the right direction. ACE Hardware
Speaker 3: is the place. By the way, after this rain, fire
Speaker 3: ants will be boiling up out of the ground. You'll
Speaker 3: see the mounds start to appear. Get you your fire
Speaker 3: ant bait from ACE and be ready to go. Treat them.
Speaker 3: Now's the time. After this rain, mosquitos will be breeding
Speaker 3: and they will be everywhere. Get your mosquito dunks and
Speaker 3: your mosquito repellents or your fogers or whatever you need
Speaker 3: from Race Hardware store Acehardware dot Com. Find the store
Speaker 3: locator and you can find one of those forty stores
Speaker 3: close to you. We are going to now head to
Speaker 3: sugar Land and talk to Johnny. Hey, Johnny, welcome to
Speaker 3: garden Line. I got about a minute before I have
Speaker 3: to take a break here, but we'll hold you over
Speaker 3: if we need to. Yes, So, miss h about side.
Speaker 8: I just pended to pallets aside and with all this rain,
Speaker 8: and then I had a tree cut down in the
Speaker 8: backyard that they kind of trampled over the new slide.
Speaker 8: Will that come back or do I need to pull
Speaker 8: out what's kind of all dirt, no grass and reslotted.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Johnny, I'd give it a chance. You may lift one.
Speaker 3: If it's kind of like crushed in, you may lift
Speaker 3: it up, smooth a swill line underneath it, and then
Speaker 3: lay it back down. If it's already got roots in
Speaker 3: the ground, just leave it.
Speaker 8: I think, Yeah, it's been down, it's been down eight
Speaker 8: weeks and well this was all green when I put
Speaker 8: it down, but because of the shade, it kind of
Speaker 8: started going away.
Speaker 3: Well, hang on, I'm gonna run. I have to run
Speaker 3: to a quick break. If you want to stick around,
Speaker 3: we'll continue this discussion just a bit of somewhere. I
Speaker 3: got the Boostky Brees, hang on back in the guard line.
Speaker 3: Good to have you with us today. Hey, if you've
Speaker 3: been out west to Katie, your West Houston Garden center
Speaker 3: is Nelson Nursery and Water Gardens outing Katie. It's just
Speaker 3: a hop skipping a jump outside of town. Here's what
Speaker 3: you do. You head out of ten, you turn north
Speaker 3: on Katie Fort Ben Road crossover and you're just right.
Speaker 3: It's right there on the right hand side, easy to
Speaker 3: get to. Now you know, they're known for the water garden.
Speaker 3: They're nationally known for their water gardens, disappearing fountains and
Speaker 3: waterfalls and oh my gosh, all kinds of things. They'll
Speaker 3: come do it, create that kind of thing at your property,
Speaker 3: and believe me, it is so wonderful to have the
Speaker 3: sound of water and the beauty on your property. They'll
Speaker 3: help you if you don't do it yourself. They can
Speaker 3: provide you some materials and guide you tell you a
Speaker 3: little bit about how you go about it to do itself.
Speaker 3: You won't do that. They got the fish, They got
Speaker 3: the water, plants and everything else you need. By the way,
Speaker 3: right now out there Nelson Water Garden and Nursery. Don't
Speaker 3: forget that nurse because they have a lot of great plants.
Speaker 3: Their fruiting trees and shrubs are half off fruiting. This
Speaker 3: is your chance to get a really good deal on
Speaker 3: some fruiting trees and shrubs. Specifically, the citrus is even
Speaker 3: a little over a half off. Lots of varieties. They
Speaker 3: have a huge selection oft crius. Last time I was
Speaker 3: out there, I was really impressed and surprised just how
Speaker 3: much they had. Nelson Water Garden and Nursery just north
Speaker 3: of itown on Katie Fort Ben Road. Go to Nelsonwatergardens
Speaker 3: dot com. You can find out more information there. We're
Speaker 3: going to head now to back to talk to Johnny
Speaker 3: and sugar Land. Hello Johnny, Hello, how you doing.
Speaker 8: I'm the one with the new slide that I laid down,
Speaker 8: and I just had a tree cut down because they
Speaker 8: had some kind of bugs and it, so I cut
Speaker 8: it down and then the new slide wasn't growing or
Speaker 8: sand green because too much shade. But when they cut
Speaker 8: it down they trampled over it.
Speaker 3: Well that's not good. So you know, all you can
Speaker 3: do is if in this wet soil, if you got
Speaker 3: some divots and sunken areas and stuff, you know, get
Speaker 3: that patched so that it's nice and level, so your
Speaker 3: lawnmowar doesn't feel like it's going over the top of
Speaker 3: the rocky mountains when you mow the lawn. But as
Speaker 3: far as the shade, I don't know how much shade
Speaker 3: you have, and there's no way you know on the
Speaker 3: radio to communicate how much. But the war shade you get,
Speaker 3: the less sun energy the grass gets, and the less
Speaker 3: sun energy it gets, the slower it is to recuperate
Speaker 3: to fill in to get thick, and so there's the
Speaker 3: trade off. So more shade shade and more shade less energy,
Speaker 3: less energy, less energy.
Speaker 8: So that that's why I didn't know if I needed Yeah,
Speaker 8: I didn't know if I needed to pull that thought out.
Speaker 8: That's just got mainly a couple of twigs here and there,
Speaker 8: and so I can rea sot it. And it's probably
Speaker 8: a six foot by ten foot piece.
Speaker 3: Okay, well, if it if it's true, if it's that bad,
Speaker 3: a couple of twigs and a piece of side, you
Speaker 3: definitely got to pull it out. You need some healthy grass,
Speaker 3: not not more than a foot apart, uh, in order
Speaker 3: for it to be able to crawl back and close over,
Speaker 3: you know by the end of the summer. Right, That's
Speaker 3: what I was afraid of. Yeah, so you don't want
Speaker 3: to leave that because the bear soil means you're gonna
Speaker 3: have weeds sprout there.
Speaker 11: Yeah, you're gonna help do that.
Speaker 3: But when you do it, even though it's been raining,
Speaker 3: when you do it, put a little application of water
Speaker 3: on twice a day, because that's what I did for
Speaker 3: the first four week. Yeah. Yeah, we still have to
Speaker 3: do it even though the soil is wet. Below that,
Speaker 3: that little clay that hasn't what half inch or three
Speaker 3: quarters of an inch or root grassroot, you got to
Speaker 3: sustain that until it gets a root down in the
Speaker 3: nice moist soil.
Speaker 6: So okay, all right, Well, appreciate your help.
Speaker 18: Thank you so much.
Speaker 3: You bet, Yeah, thanks a lot, Johnny, appreciate that. Hey,
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Speaker 13: Okay, well, dond's freeing. I've got major mushroom barb in
Speaker 13: my yard. Is that telling me something's not in balanced
Speaker 13: by lawn?
Speaker 3: Not at all. That's nature. Nature is happy. There is
Speaker 3: organic matter underground, there is dead roots, there is thatch,
Speaker 3: there's all kinds of things, and fungal organisms will grow
Speaker 3: on that and then when the weather gives a change,
Speaker 3: they pop up these little mushrooms. That's their fruiting body.
Speaker 3: Sometimes they're in circles in your yard. Sometimes they're just
Speaker 3: random here and there. Don't worry about that. They're gonna
Speaker 3: go away. You don't even need to do anything about them.
Speaker 3: That's just nature doing what nature does, and that's taking
Speaker 3: organic matter and turning it back into quality soil. Okay, great,
Speaker 3: thank you, you bet, thanks for the call. Appreciate you
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Speaker 3: tom Ball. Appreciate, appreciate your call. We're going to take
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Speaker 3: the phones and talk to Pam in Lake City. Hello, Pam,
Speaker 3: welcome the garden line.
Speaker 9: Good morning.
Speaker 13: How are you.
Speaker 3: I'm well, Thank you?
Speaker 13: Okay, So I have Saint Augustine grass in my subdivision.
Speaker 13: Are our our water drains down the side of our houses.
Speaker 13: So I've got quite quite a bit of rain, you know,
Speaker 13: because we've had so much rain, I think I have
Speaker 13: brown patch in my yard. I know we're not supposed
Speaker 13: to treat that until fall. Can I treat that now?
Speaker 3: Uh? Describe to me what you're saying.
Speaker 13: Okay, So they are they are round patches of grass
Speaker 13: that are turning.
Speaker 3: Brown round about how uh what's the diameter?
Speaker 18: Like three foot?
Speaker 13: No, they're big, They're big.
Speaker 3: Okay? Are they are? They kind of yellow around the
Speaker 3: edges and brown towards the sun? Yes, yes, okay, Well
Speaker 3: you might have it brown patch called large patch, is
Speaker 3: a disease called riizoctnia, and there's a several species of
Speaker 3: rhizoc Tonia that can attack our Saint Augustine lawns. And
Speaker 3: in the summertime we usually have a different species than
Speaker 3: we do in the fall, when it's cooler. But look,
Speaker 3: we've had we've had some really mild weather lately for
Speaker 3: summer for this time of the year, and so that
Speaker 3: doesn't surprise me. You could go ahead and do a
Speaker 3: fungicide treatment on it. When you do that for brown
Speaker 3: patch large patch kinds of things, you don't fix the spots,
Speaker 3: but you prevent additional infections. Okay, if it's yeah, if
Speaker 3: it's the brown patch, the runners are still alive and
Speaker 3: it'll regrain and you've got time for it to regreen,
Speaker 3: but you would go you would go ahead and put
Speaker 3: that fungicide down. Uh, And that way you kind of
Speaker 3: have a just it soaks into the tissues of the
Speaker 3: of the grass and it provides that ongoing protection for it.
Speaker 13: So for example, Microlife brown Patch.
Speaker 3: Microlife brown Patch would help. That is not specifically a fungicide,
Speaker 3: but it's designed with microbially to create an environment where
Speaker 3: the brown patch doesn't thrive. You know, I think once
Speaker 3: you see the circles, it's hard to get anything to
Speaker 3: work really really well for that. But I know night
Speaker 3: Fross has a brown patch control. They provide a product
Speaker 3: called Eagle. Those are both chemicals that fight it from
Speaker 3: an organic standpoint, getting it to quit raining would be
Speaker 3: nice because when it rains and rains, it's just going
Speaker 3: to set us up for diseases. We can't control that.
Speaker 3: But aeration with compost stop dressing will be very helpful.
Speaker 3: Microbially enriched fertilizers done over time will be helpful. And
Speaker 3: the one that Microlife makes is called Microlife brown Patch.
Speaker 3: I an example of that kind of thing, and it's
Speaker 3: going to have again microbially things to help that because
Speaker 3: when you get down to the plant level, there's a
Speaker 3: disease that's attacking the tissues, and you can put microbes
Speaker 3: on there to make it a less hospitable place for
Speaker 3: the disease, to out compute the disease, to crowd out
Speaker 3: the disease and things, and that would be the organic approach.
Speaker 3: But again, those we need to be doing ahead of
Speaker 3: time in order to have.
Speaker 13: The best right, I just put that on LATA.
Speaker 3: Okay, good, Well, you could do it now if you had.
Speaker 3: When was the last time you fertilized?
Speaker 13: Actually I'm getting ready to do that. I'm winning a
Speaker 13: little bit behind, but I bought the fertilizer yesterday.
Speaker 3: Well that's okay, perfectly, Okay, have you seen my schedule online?
Speaker 3: Have you download.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I af through July.
Speaker 13: I have a couple of days left.
Speaker 3: Well, don't worry about that. That's when we want you
Speaker 3: to apply it, and we're just trying to not apply
Speaker 3: it so close that when we do fall fertilization. Now
Speaker 3: we got too much. That's why I stop it in July.
Speaker 3: But don't worry about that. You can do it now.
Speaker 13: Is there fun Is there a funge of side I
Speaker 13: should be putting on it? Also?
Speaker 3: Well, if you did on my lawn pest disease and
Speaker 3: weed management schedule, the fungicide that I would recommend is
Speaker 3: a nitroposs the Total brown Patch Control, or you can
Speaker 3: use their product called Eagle. But again, just okay, so
Speaker 3: that's going to prove go ahead.
Speaker 13: I'm sorry. I put that on on the fall. So
Speaker 13: if I should, I just leave the brown patch alone
Speaker 13: and put it on again in the fall.
Speaker 3: That's an option. If it quits raining and you don't
Speaker 3: over water, she shouldn't water more than once a week
Speaker 3: on that Uh, it will start to regrain and you
Speaker 3: should be then looking at it for fall. If you
Speaker 3: want to stop it right now, you can put an
Speaker 3: application on, but don't do it when you know within
Speaker 3: twelve hours it's going to start raining.
Speaker 13: Okay, okay, okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Thanks you. I appreciate your call very much. We're talking
Speaker 3: about products and all this kind of stuff. Where can
Speaker 3: you find stuff? Well, I tell you where you can
Speaker 3: find stuff. You can find stuff at Southwest Fertilizer. And
Speaker 3: it's worth driving from anywhere to get there. Southwest Fertilizers
Speaker 3: on the southwest side of town. There is not a
Speaker 3: product fertilizer, pest control, disease control, weed control that I
Speaker 3: recommend that's not at Southwest Fertilizer, plus many many more
Speaker 3: tools eighty foot wall of tools. They carry organic, they
Speaker 3: carry synthetic, and they know what they're talking about. You
Speaker 3: bring them a sample of a plant, you bring them
Speaker 3: pictures of plants. What is this. They'll put you in
Speaker 3: touch with the product. If one is needed, that we'll
Speaker 3: control it. Southwest Fertilizer dot com. That's the website corner
Speaker 3: of this nut and runaway. If you've never been there,
Speaker 3: you need to go just to see what I'm talking about.
Speaker 3: By the way, when you get buy there, lest I
Speaker 3: drag as on will music is playing. They have a
Speaker 3: thing called the folding knealing batch that I think is outstanding.
Speaker 3: It'll change your gardening life. I mean, I really mean that.
Speaker 3: Uh if you sit on it as a bench and
Speaker 3: move it around with you very lightweight, and flip it
Speaker 3: upside down and you can kneel on it and then
Speaker 3: what was legs now or handles to get back up.
Speaker 3: When you're north of forty getting up and down eight
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Speaker 1: Welcome to kzy Rh garden Line with Skip Richard's pa.
Speaker 2: Just watch him as.
Speaker 3: Welcome back to garden Line. Good to have you with
Speaker 3: us this morning. We got plenty still to talk about here,
Speaker 3: and I thank you for hanging around and listening in.
Speaker 3: How can we help you have a more bountiful garden,
Speaker 3: a more beautiful landscape, that's what we're looking for. Earlier
Speaker 3: I was talking about the importance of the microbial activity
Speaker 3: that is down around the soul. We were talking about
Speaker 3: even with helping fight disease and things, having the good
Speaker 3: microbes there to help fight bad microbes. There are many
Speaker 3: examples in nature of instances where that happens, and it's
Speaker 3: important and Microlife has built their products around that. When
Speaker 3: you by a Microlife product, you're not just getting the
Speaker 3: numbers in the bag. You're getting it chalk full of
Speaker 3: all kinds of microbes, including microhizal fungi that grow in
Speaker 3: or around the root and then reach out and bring
Speaker 3: food to the root. I need a micro hizal fungi
Speaker 3: in my life that just kind of hangs out and
Speaker 3: goes and gets me stuff out of the fridge. That's
Speaker 3: what I need anyway. That's how microbes microhyzol can work.
Speaker 3: There are many other beneficial essential microbes that are there,
Speaker 3: and whether it's their standard six y two four green
Speaker 3: bag kind of the main one that we think of
Speaker 3: when we're thinking about lawn fertilizing or the humans plus
Speaker 3: concentrated compost in a bag, the zero zero four, those
Speaker 3: products are all going to do that. There are many
Speaker 3: liquid blends. There are the Ocean Harvest that is this
Speaker 3: fish based product. There is a seaweed based product. There
Speaker 3: is the Orange label that I use for my houseplants,
Speaker 3: which is an excellent product for furling is all kinds
Speaker 3: of things I use for housebunfs. Go outside, when you
Speaker 3: plant a plant, drench the soil with that product. You're
Speaker 3: going to get the same good results from it. Microlife's
Speaker 3: widely available. You're going to find it all kinds of places.
Speaker 3: For example, if you're if you're up in the Conroe
Speaker 3: Montgomery County area, certainly over in the Montgomery area, well,
Speaker 3: Ana Plants and Produce carries microlife. You know an A.
Speaker 3: You drive past them all the time. They're right there
Speaker 3: on the on the north side of one oh five,
Speaker 3: just on the Conro side of Montgomery, Texas. And when
Speaker 3: you go to A and A you're going to find
Speaker 3: a nice selection of everything. Any fertilizer I talk about here,
Speaker 3: anything you need to control diseases and weeds and pests
Speaker 3: in your lawn, and an excellent selection of plants and
Speaker 3: some really cool landscape bling from iron structures you know,
Speaker 3: arches and so on, to chimeneas to put out there
Speaker 3: on the patio to enjoy the evenings. Uh, just lots
Speaker 3: of stuff at Ana Plants and Produce, including microlife. Bitch,
Speaker 3: they have an outstanding selection of microlife right there. Ana
Speaker 3: Plants and produce on the east side of Montgomery on
Speaker 3: Highway one oh five, just north of the road. Stop in,
Speaker 3: say hey to them, and always check back because they
Speaker 3: are changing what they get all the time. There's always
Speaker 3: new stuff coming in. There's always this time of the year.
Speaker 3: You're gonna find some really good deals on some really
Speaker 3: good plants as well as good advice. We're going to
Speaker 3: head now out to let's see, We're going to go
Speaker 3: to Friendswood and talk to Brian.
Speaker 6: Hello, Brian, Hey, how are you today?
Speaker 3: I have.
Speaker 11: Thank you.
Speaker 6: I have an issue with basket grass. And Okay, in small,
Speaker 6: small areas, I can pick it up, but I have
Speaker 6: an area that is just overrun. What can I do
Speaker 6: to kill it?
Speaker 3: When did you first notice this? Is it something that's
Speaker 3: just grown over the years, or did it seem to
Speaker 3: almost here suddenly?
Speaker 15: What?
Speaker 6: Well, it came it came in and then I kick
Speaker 6: most of it out, and then the neighbor's yard just
Speaker 6: it grows from the neighbor's yard over and I let
Speaker 6: it grow. And it's in an area doesn't get a
Speaker 6: whole lot of sunshine. M hmm, yeah, and it just
Speaker 6: it just got to the point where I can't pick
Speaker 6: all of it out.
Speaker 3: Wow, okay, Well, there's not a great basket grass is
Speaker 3: like wandering jew It's like the tratiskenches and others. It's
Speaker 3: in that group of plants that it kind of doesn't
Speaker 3: is not a grass, even though it has that name.
Speaker 3: It's not a broad leave really, and trying to find
Speaker 3: control for it is a little bit of a challenge.
Speaker 3: Some people will just use a extent, you know, a
Speaker 3: post emergent we control product that kills everything, like a
Speaker 3: glafe of state like product, and the just kill it
Speaker 3: all with the basket grass and all and then replant
Speaker 3: in that area. That's an option, but it's a mess
Speaker 3: and a lot of areas of the country it gets
Speaker 3: out in the woods. It's very invasive, taking over state
Speaker 3: parks and other things like that. And we certainly experience
Speaker 3: it here in the Houston area. Like you're like, you're
Speaker 3: talking about I don't know a selective herbicide for it.
Speaker 3: You might Is this a huge area you said, not
Speaker 3: just a.
Speaker 6: Small Oh it's probably ten foot by two foot area.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay, it's but it's.
Speaker 6: Slowly moving over. It's slowly moving over into my Saint
Speaker 6: Augustine that it's taking it over.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well, and it can do that. But a couple
Speaker 3: of things are happening there, Brian. The low light levels
Speaker 3: are keeping Saint Augustine for being strong and thick and
Speaker 3: dense and everything like that. And so that is part
Speaker 3: of the reason that basket grass, which is willing to
Speaker 3: grow in those levels, is able to take over when
Speaker 3: icy stuff from across the country where it's more of
Speaker 3: a takeover nature out in the wild than it is here.
Speaker 3: And they talk about hand removing, I mean that is
Speaker 3: that's a job, but clearing all of it out as
Speaker 3: much as you can, getting as much as the roots
Speaker 3: because it breaks off, that is a legit way to
Speaker 3: go about it. But the other would be just to
Speaker 3: use a non selective herbicide product, knowing that whatever you
Speaker 3: get it on it's going to kill it. There are
Speaker 3: there is another option where you would use a granular
Speaker 3: pre emergent product like barricade to shut that down from
Speaker 3: re sprouting from seed. But that's not going to kill
Speaker 3: the existing plants that you have.
Speaker 6: Okay, well, I will endeavor to kill it somehow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, I'm The things I'm telling you aren't
Speaker 3: good answers, But there's not a good answer to it.
Speaker 3: And you look around the country where they're trying to
Speaker 3: fight it, like I said, taking over a state park
Speaker 3: or something, and they're given the same answers. You know,
Speaker 3: it's basically.
Speaker 6: I'll try some round duve d.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just be careful, try to avoid getting it on
Speaker 3: the good things as much as you can.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 3: And I think that's that's probably your your best approach.
Speaker 12: You know.
Speaker 3: There's there's one other thing and I have not Well,
Speaker 3: let me give you one other thing to consider. Let's see,
Speaker 3: you're located up down and friends with. There is a
Speaker 3: cinnamon based product, agral On, and it's a It comes
Speaker 3: in a little round canister, paper canister, and you sprinkle
Speaker 3: it on weeds. First, the weeds need to be wet
Speaker 3: so that the dust sticks to the weed, but it
Speaker 3: just fries the foliage of stuff down. It works on doveweed.
Speaker 3: I know that that's kind of a similar issue that
Speaker 3: we have, uh. And it might work on basket grass.
Speaker 3: Off the top of my head, I can't promise you
Speaker 3: that it would, but I think you ought to look
Speaker 3: into that and see because it if it would, that
Speaker 3: would be a way that you could sprinkle something that
Speaker 3: is not going to kill your Saint Augustine, but would
Speaker 3: kill the weed. It's pretty good that that agrolon is
Speaker 3: pretty good on on a lot of kinds of weeds.
Speaker 3: Not cheap and you're buying little canisters, but a ten
Speaker 3: by two. Uh, that that's very reasonable to use it
Speaker 3: for that.
Speaker 6: Well, I will give that a try to see if
Speaker 6: I can find it somewhere.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, all right, you take care of Thank you,
Speaker 3: thanks for the call. Appreciate appreciate that. We're going to
Speaker 3: now go to Spring Branch. Uh And oh, I'm sorry,
Speaker 3: we got to take a break. It's done for another
Speaker 3: commercial HURDA. When we come back, you'll be first up,
Speaker 3: and David you'll be right after that. For this morning,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna you remember that.
Speaker 15: All right.
Speaker 3: We're going to now go out to Spring Branch and
Speaker 3: talk to her. Hello, Herta, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 20: Good morning. Thank you. My questions about my cheffleua. It's
Speaker 20: almost five feet tall. It's outside though nice Randy about
Speaker 20: moving it in, and he said I'd kill it.
Speaker 6: So that's how it is.
Speaker 18: This.
Speaker 20: No, it's got about six stems. The leaves are yellow,
Speaker 20: and I don't know what to do or give it
Speaker 20: or put on it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, something's wrong in the roots that it could be
Speaker 3: a root rot if it stayed too wet. It could
Speaker 3: just be too wet side the soil. Something went on
Speaker 3: down there in the roots system. I think, just you know,
Speaker 3: dig down. You've had a long time, you know how
Speaker 3: to take care of it, so I don't need to
Speaker 3: tell you that. But I dig down trying I feel
Speaker 3: the soil. See if it's moist a couple of two
Speaker 3: or three inches below the surface. And if it is,
Speaker 3: don't water it again. Those those plants can take a
Speaker 3: period of drying out, not extended drought.
Speaker 17: Little.
Speaker 3: They do better if you let them dry out a little.
Speaker 20: Bit and then get them overall with all this range.
Speaker 20: But the other thing, I have some leaf mold compost
Speaker 20: will be good to work that in around the top soil.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, you could, but in it's it's is it
Speaker 3: in a container of the ground?
Speaker 20: I didn't catch that's the ground.
Speaker 3: In the ground. Oh okay, okay, all right, Yeah, you
Speaker 3: could work a little bit of a leaf more compost,
Speaker 3: all right, A little bit of a housepunt type fertilizer
Speaker 3: in the ground around it. That would be another good choice.
Speaker 3: What you need to do is you need to find
Speaker 3: somebody to come over there and stand with an umbrella
Speaker 3: over the plant every time it rains. That's the last
Speaker 3: thing to do. Well, keep this is too much water
Speaker 3: for that thing, that's the problem.
Speaker 20: Oh listen. Well, I didn't have it as bad as
Speaker 20: some motive sections did, but it poured and for a
Speaker 20: long long time. I guess that's the problem.
Speaker 3: Good, well, good luck with it, Hurda. Thank you for calling.
Speaker 9: Appreciate it well, thank you.
Speaker 20: For being there.
Speaker 11: Bye bye, all right, you take care, bye bye.
Speaker 3: I talk all the time about the importance of preparing
Speaker 3: the soil, preparing this oil. Sienna Maltch is south of Houston.
Speaker 3: C Maltch is down south. They're near our highway six
Speaker 3: and two eighty eight are Ff. The actual road is
Speaker 3: FM five twenty one, just north of road Sharon. Let
Speaker 3: me give you the website Sienna Waltz dot com. There
Speaker 3: you'll find out how to get there, how to call them,
Speaker 3: all that kind of stuff. Us know this that if
Speaker 3: you're anywhere in that region like ro Sharon, Meridian, First Colony,
Speaker 3: Lake Olympia, or maybe Fresno, Quilla Valley, Sweetwater, Pearland, do
Speaker 3: you get what I'm talking about in your Brizespen State Park,
Speaker 3: Sandy Point or Cola, Iowa Colony. This is your local
Speaker 3: multch and soil provider and they have quality composts. They
Speaker 3: have veggiean herb mix from Maryland Soils for example. They've
Speaker 3: got quality mulches as well, bulk by the bag. They
Speaker 3: deliver within about twenty miles if you need a bulk delivery.
Speaker 3: They're open Monday through Friday seven thirty to five and
Speaker 3: Saturday from seven thirty to two. And people that know
Speaker 3: quality soils go to Siena Mulch. You know we I
Speaker 3: was just talking to the other day about B and
Speaker 3: D Turk Pros super high quality compost top dressing aeration company.
Speaker 3: They get their stuff from Cienamulch because they know Siena
Speaker 3: Multch means quality stuff. And what is the most important
Speaker 3: thing we do for success with plants. Prepare the soil
Speaker 3: brown stuff before greens. When you go to Cienamaltch, you
Speaker 3: get everything for the brown stuff. That includes the compass.
Speaker 3: It includes all the fertilizers I talk about on guardline.
Speaker 3: They're all there. When you drive off from Ciena malt
Speaker 3: you have everything you need to make a foundation for success.
Speaker 3: I don't care if you're growing vegetables, herbs, fruit, flowers,
Speaker 3: you name it. They've got it at cnamals cianamalts dot com.
Speaker 3: I'm going to head now out to Cleveland to talk
Speaker 3: to David.
Speaker 5: Hello, David, Hey, Skip, good morning.
Speaker 6: I have a question about tomatoes.
Speaker 5: I lost all my tomatoes in the hurricane.
Speaker 9: Is there something I can plant?
Speaker 8: Some type of tomato I can plant that I can
Speaker 8: have time to produce some tomatoes.
Speaker 18: Yet this year?
Speaker 3: Yeah, there are a number of varieties. But here's the
Speaker 3: important thing, more important than just the name of the
Speaker 3: variety of right now is how many days to harvest
Speaker 3: is it? And you can go online and you can
Speaker 3: learn that celebrity is a pretty good one pretty fast.
Speaker 3: There's some that are a little faster, but.
Speaker 12: Ex actually what I'm ex actually what I like to
Speaker 12: grow a celebrity, Yeah, celebrity.
Speaker 3: Some like brandywine, maybe seventy eight to eighty days. Now
Speaker 3: you may think, well, that's just a little over a
Speaker 3: week past celebrity, but not when you get in the
Speaker 3: fall and it starts to cool off, because then seventy
Speaker 3: eight to eight it may take it ninety days before
Speaker 3: it reaches because it cools off too much. So find
Speaker 3: the fastest tomatoes you can plant, get them in the ground,
Speaker 3: and you have the both best success and it's still
Speaker 3: okay to plant celebrity in your area.
Speaker 8: Okay, the garden center is out in this area, like
Speaker 8: in Kingwood or whatever are they would they still.
Speaker 6: Have plants in stock?
Speaker 11: Maybe?
Speaker 3: I think they would. I'd call Warren Southern Gardens or
Speaker 3: Kingwood Garden Center, see what they have. This is the
Speaker 3: time of year when there are not a lot of
Speaker 3: people showing up going hey, I want tomato plans. There
Speaker 3: are some, but not a lot, and so that's why
Speaker 3: you don't see them widely available now like you would
Speaker 3: in the spring. But I would try those and see
Speaker 3: what they have that that would be your best bet
Speaker 3: out in your area.
Speaker 9: Already.
Speaker 3: I appreciate it very much, sir, Hi, good luck, and
Speaker 3: if you have success, just remember, bring half half your
Speaker 3: tomatoes to the K T R H studio drop.
Speaker 5: Them off and as long as you as long as
Speaker 5: you like a good spaghetti sauce, I'll do it.
Speaker 3: I can do that. Take care, baby, take care. Oh
Speaker 3: my goodness. Uh, let's see, we're going to go down
Speaker 3: to Cleveland and nope, No, we just did Cleveland. We're
Speaker 3: going to go to Champions and talk to Ruben. Hello Ruben, Hello,
Speaker 3: good morning, Skip, good morning, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 6: I got a question, so I'm looking do you recommend
Speaker 6: any dense shade plants for our area, in particular here
Speaker 6: in Houston.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, It depends on what kind of plants you want.
Speaker 3: If you're looking at a groundcover, there's nothing to shade
Speaker 3: more tolerant than monkey grass or mondo grass, mondo turf.
Speaker 3: It's very, very shade tolerant. The ast that grass is
Speaker 3: kind of a it looks like a white and green
Speaker 3: stripe ariopy that does really well. And in deep shade,
Speaker 3: that white really lightens up the area well, cause attention
Speaker 3: to it. Lariope would do good there. If you're looking
Speaker 3: for flowers, impatients, kalladiums and wishbone flower are three examples. Uh,
Speaker 3: they need some decent amount of light, but they don't
Speaker 3: need direct sun in order to perform well. And then
Speaker 3: of course there's shrubs and that grow in that area,
Speaker 3: but those would be a few off the top of
Speaker 3: my head ideas.
Speaker 18: Okay, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Add ferns to the mixt if you can keep it
Speaker 3: moist down in there. Cast iron plants. Another one cast
Speaker 3: iron plant grows in a lot of shade, and it
Speaker 3: is a tough plant. That's why it has that name.
Speaker 3: Uh it's taller than the groundcover. But we kind of
Speaker 3: lump it into that group. All right, already, I appreciate it,
Speaker 3: all right, you take care, appreciate your appreciate your call
Speaker 3: very much. Thank you. Let's see where are we here? Okay,
Speaker 3: we got time to go to another call. We're going
Speaker 3: to go to Scott in Montgomery. Hello, Scott, Hey, good morning, sir.
Speaker 3: I'm well, how can we help today? I'm doing that.
Speaker 3: How can we help today?
Speaker 16: Hang on one second, I turned off my speaker. One question.
Speaker 16: In the past, I've called you about my Myer's lemonry.
Speaker 16: You tell me about some of my think micro life
Speaker 16: for my proditional limit. I've got five good lemons are
Speaker 16: coming up. But forgot the name of the dog on it.
Speaker 16: Didn't write it down for the micro heard a lot
Speaker 16: of that, and then I'm questioning about mushroom popping off everybody's.
Speaker 3: Jar with all this water, right, okay, Well, for the
Speaker 3: for the myr lemon you're in Montgomery. You need to
Speaker 3: go out to the east side of town to a
Speaker 3: NA Plants and produce, Yes, sir, they carry They carry
Speaker 3: every fertilizer I talk about on the garden line, including
Speaker 3: the microlife products that would be for like fruit and
Speaker 3: centrius type things. Now you can use the microlife's on there.
Speaker 3: You can use any of them all. But that that
Speaker 3: was where I would go to an A Plants and
Speaker 3: produce to get that.
Speaker 16: I don't sound like the plants.
Speaker 3: The mushrooms are just part of nature. When we often
Speaker 3: see mushrooms, like when we get into fall and we
Speaker 3: get a little cool front come through in some rain,
Speaker 3: mushrooms will pop everywhere and it's.
Speaker 9: Just everywhere out here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, well there aren't hurting anything.
Speaker 16: Uh and and so we have fourteen rain out here
Speaker 16: in the past since this past they lose.
Speaker 3: That's a lot of lot of brother vegetable garden. Turn
Speaker 3: your vegetable garden into a rice paddy. It sounds like
Speaker 3: out there.
Speaker 9: Ye know, my sprinkler are all sprinkler are all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Well that's a good thing. You're doing the right
Speaker 3: thing there.
Speaker 16: And all you're up against some break. You have a
Speaker 16: great day, so you can't you have a great day, sir,
Speaker 16: God bless you by bye.
Speaker 3: All right, you take care. Don't don't worry about those mushrooms.
Speaker 3: If you have mushrooms, here's my recommendations. A. Don't worry
Speaker 3: about them. B. Find a golf club and have some fun.
Speaker 3: Uh see, Remember that what they are is there the
Speaker 3: fruiting body of something that was growing underground, and is
Speaker 3: there all the time right now in your yard. If
Speaker 3: you don't see a single mushroom, there are fungi living
Speaker 3: in the decaying organic matter on top of and underground,
Speaker 3: and when the weather is right, you get these things
Speaker 3: popping up. And there are many kinds of hundreds and
Speaker 3: hundreds of kinds of mushrooms we can have around our landscape.
Speaker 3: That's part of how nature turns organic matter into soil.
Speaker 3: Think about a forest. It's been there for one hundred
Speaker 3: thousands of years. You think about that, and how does
Speaker 3: that not be two miles deep in tree trunks. You
Speaker 3: can thank fungi for that. We'll be right back.
Speaker 9: Than you are.
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Speaker 3: West Sand Houston Tollway. Doctor Bob in Spring, Hello Bob,
Speaker 3: Welcome to garden.
Speaker 9: Morning.
Speaker 15: Hi. I garden and squirrels are getting in it, and
Speaker 15: birds and whatever. So then I put plastic pipe and
Speaker 15: hoops and put down chicken ware on those and they
Speaker 15: close the thing. And everything I planted in there is
Speaker 15: being eating tomatoes, squash, you know, you name it. They
Speaker 15: eat the bugs off before it ever gets to grow.
Speaker 15: I was wondering what kind of critters I might be
Speaker 15: galing north on how to get rid of them.
Speaker 3: So what you're seeing now is just the loss of
Speaker 3: buds or are you seeing the leaves eating off?
Speaker 9: Uh?
Speaker 15: It's more of the buds.
Speaker 3: Okay, well tomatoes une. Yeah, tomatoes will abort their buds
Speaker 3: for different reasons if they hit the bloom stage. The
Speaker 3: temperatures that we typically experience in late spring through summer,
Speaker 3: basically summer temperatures, it's too hot from set fruit and
Speaker 3: they just fall those buds fall off. Other stresses can
Speaker 3: cause a boarding of the buds, but I think probably
Speaker 3: temperatures that. Now on the on the squashing things, I
Speaker 3: can't think of anything that would eat a bud off
Speaker 3: of a squash plant because well they don't they don't
Speaker 3: have buds per se. They they either have a little
Speaker 3: baby squash that hadn't opened the flower and been pollinated yet,
Speaker 3: or have a male flower.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: And so you got to have both of those to
Speaker 3: get pollinated. Sometimes we see rots that occur on the
Speaker 3: belly button end of those little baby squash that haven't
Speaker 3: already started to grow yet or even after they start
Speaker 3: to grow, and that's a disease, fungal disease brought on
Speaker 3: by wet conditions, uh to water it too much, uh yeah,
Speaker 3: splashing rain typically and the kind of temperatures that we have,
Speaker 3: the warm, muggy, warm temperatures. The disease is called chow
Speaker 3: an offer or rot and but the only way to
Speaker 3: most people ignore it. They pick off the little whiskery
Speaker 3: rotting squashes and throw them away somewhere and go on.
Speaker 3: And when the temperature, when the rain and stuff stopped,
Speaker 3: then you start getting regular squashed. You can spray for
Speaker 3: it ahead of time, but most gardeners don't want to
Speaker 3: apply fungicides all the time just in case it might
Speaker 3: show up.
Speaker 15: So fungicide, okay, that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: If you got it on ahead of time, Like well, yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm saying, most people ignore it, just pick off the
Speaker 3: loss and go on. But if you want to spray
Speaker 3: right when it quits raining, you got to spray a
Speaker 3: fund side on on the squash fruit down at the
Speaker 3: base there, so that when the disease tries to infect
Speaker 3: in those wet conditions, it protects it. If you do
Speaker 3: it before the rain, it just washes off what you sprayed.
Speaker 15: Okay, yeah, you know there's a well other things replaying
Speaker 15: in there, you know, just something's eating all the buds
Speaker 15: off of all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 3: Well, you know what, could you send me some pictures
Speaker 3: of the thing, because a general like things aren't a
Speaker 3: budget get eaten. If they're truly being eaten, it's probably
Speaker 3: a caterpillar, but it could be a beetle, it could
Speaker 3: be a grasshopper, it could be a slug or a snail,
Speaker 3: but probably a caterpillar. But if you'll send me some
Speaker 3: pictures up close of what you're seeing, I'm going to
Speaker 3: put you on hold and have Nick pick up the
Speaker 3: phone and give you an email to send pictures to.
Speaker 3: I'll take a look at them and see what I
Speaker 3: might be missing. But that's pretty much, Bob, what I'm
Speaker 3: able to tell you. Now, just hang on just for
Speaker 3: a second. We're going to get you here on hold.
Speaker 3: For those of you up in the Tombol area, you're
Speaker 3: looking for a feed store, and it's out west of
Speaker 3: Tombald twenty nine to twenty. There's a lot of new
Speaker 3: neighborhoods going in out there. D and De Feed is
Speaker 3: your hometown feed store. You're going to find Nitropos fertilizers there.
Speaker 3: They're going to have things like sweet Green that you
Speaker 3: heard me talk about, or super Turf or the Imperial
Speaker 3: and a lot of other things. They're gonna have the barricade.
Speaker 3: They're going to also have things like leaf moore compost
Speaker 3: and heirloom rose soil, and fruit and berry and citrus mixes,
Speaker 3: and veggie and herb mixes from heirloom soils. They're going
Speaker 3: to carry the microlife products pretty much what you would
Speaker 3: need for your garden. You're going to find it. D
Speaker 3: and DE Feed. Their phone number is two eight one
Speaker 3: three five one seventy one forty four. When you're in there,
Speaker 3: you hear me talk about snail bait. Earlier I talked
Speaker 3: about you know, we're talking about all funge asides for
Speaker 3: this last call. All of that at D and D Feed.
Speaker 3: They're west of tombul on twenty nine to twenty, just
Speaker 3: a little bit out of town there on the left
Speaker 3: hand side. You need to stop in. They have a
Speaker 3: selection of plants from time to time out front and
Speaker 3: it's just a great place to shop and they treat
Speaker 3: you right. That's really really important. I want to head
Speaker 3: out now to Huffman, Texas. We're going to talk to Jerry. Hello, Jerry, Hey,
Speaker 3: how you doing. I'm good sir. How can we help?
Speaker 5: Well, you were talking about mushrooms and we got a
Speaker 5: bunch of them goes up in my yard and my
Speaker 5: wife She says that the person I said, they'll kill
Speaker 5: my little dog if you eat some. And I want
Speaker 5: to know from you, what do you think.
Speaker 3: I think you ought to call a bet about that,
Speaker 3: to be honest, because I'm not an expert. Some mushrooms
Speaker 3: are poisonous, not all.
Speaker 11: Uh.
Speaker 3: Some just taste the bad things, don't eat them.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: But you know the problem is, there's ten bazillion different
Speaker 3: types of fungi mushrooms out there in the environment, and
Speaker 3: it's hard to paint with a brush, you know, as
Speaker 3: to as to what will happen. But that could help you. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I understand that. Well, what you could do is the
Speaker 3: minute one pops up, just go break it off, get
Speaker 3: rid of it.
Speaker 12: Uh.
Speaker 3: And after this weather pattern passes, you shouldn't see as
Speaker 3: many until we get to fall and have some cool
Speaker 3: weather in a rain and rain comes back.
Speaker 5: Odd mane Well, I'll call the big neck Jim and
Speaker 5: then probably tell me the same thing. Take some picture.
Speaker 5: Some say, I don't know how to do that, odd bro? Thanks, okay, good.
Speaker 15: Well, well, I just.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's just there's so many kinds of mushrooms, you know, Jerry.
Speaker 7: Uh.
Speaker 3: They there are people that go out in the woods
Speaker 3: and they find ushrooms to eat, and they have to
Speaker 3: be able to know the difference between poisonous and not poisonous.
Speaker 3: And there's a saying that there that when people get
Speaker 3: out there and they start picking things and trying them
Speaker 3: and they don't know what they are, it may be
Speaker 3: okay or it may not be. They say, there's old
Speaker 3: mushroom hunters, and there's bold mushroom hunters, but there aren't
Speaker 3: any old bold mushroom hunters. You see what I'm saying.
Speaker 3: So you got to be careful with that as you're
Speaker 3: doing all you bet absolutely, Hey, thank you for the call.
Speaker 3: All right, folks, we're going to go to break here
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Speaker 3: the soil, remember, and you know how to pick good plants,
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Speaker 3: Now you've heard me talk about ACE Hardware stores before.
Speaker 3: Ace Hardware is all over the Southeast Texas area. In factor,
Speaker 3: in the Greater Houston area, there's forty Ace Hardware stores.
Speaker 3: It's really easy. You just go to the website Acehardware
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Speaker 3: stores around you. And ACE Hardware is where you're going
Speaker 3: to find every fertilizer I talk about on guard Line.
Speaker 3: It's where you're going to find the pest, disease and
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Speaker 3: There's everything to make that outdoor sitting area wonderful, including
Speaker 3: right now then rain and right what does that mean?
Speaker 3: Two things. Mosquitos are on their way. It doesn't take
Speaker 3: them long, just a few days and next thing you know,
Speaker 3: you got to new crop and fire ance. They'll pop
Speaker 3: up out of the ground. When you see this kind
Speaker 3: of rain. What you didn't even know you had a
Speaker 3: colony underground and all of a sudden, here comes the
Speaker 3: soil up high. As they're building up above the water
Speaker 3: to come up. ACE can cover it. Get a good
Speaker 3: quality bait. Start with a bait for fire ants from ACE,
Speaker 3: and you can shut those things down. You just put
Speaker 3: a sprinkle here and there. There's synthetic baits and organic baits,
Speaker 3: but even the synthetics, you're putting so little product out
Speaker 3: and it's such a low level. It didn't if it
Speaker 3: was strong in sex sight, it would kill the ant
Speaker 3: that picked it up and it would never make it
Speaker 3: back to the colony. But it's a very slow, gradual
Speaker 3: acting shut that queen down. Shut things down. ACE has
Speaker 3: got that. Ace also has mosquita dunks to put in
Speaker 3: water to stop the mosquito larva from turning into adults.
Speaker 3: ACE has got foggers. Ace has got you know, any
Speaker 3: kind of repellent. They have it all. Ace is a
Speaker 3: place makes your outdoor area even more enjoyable, and with
Speaker 3: forty stores, it's not hard to find one near you.
Speaker 3: So those mosquito dunks are an important one.
Speaker 8: You know.
Speaker 3: Though some people have asked me, well will that hurt
Speaker 3: birds and fish? And no, no, and no, it won't
Speaker 3: hurt your pets. It won't hurt the birds, it won't
Speaker 3: hit the fish. It won't hurt a grasshopper, it won't
Speaker 3: hurt a ladybug. The reason is it's a disease of
Speaker 3: mosquito larvae. So you can relax, you can rest assured.
Speaker 3: Throw it up in an old hollow tree area where
Speaker 3: it stands in water. That's where mosquitoes are breeding. Toss
Speaker 3: them up in that gutter that's hanging a little low.
Speaker 3: You haven't fixed yet, where water stands, mosquitoes are breeding.
Speaker 3: Put them underneath the catch bases. Put them in your
Speaker 3: bird bath. I mean, wherever you got a little pond
Speaker 3: that doesn't drain well, back in the area it's poorly
Speaker 3: drained soil, throw some mosquito dunks or some break them
Speaker 3: up into granules and throw them in there, and you
Speaker 3: will shut it down. It's a great product. I mean,
Speaker 3: there are very few products that are safe as mosquita dunks.
Speaker 3: We're going to head now out to Memorial and talk
Speaker 3: to a Lane. Hello, Elaine, Welcome to garden Line.
Speaker 21: Good mornings, Good good morning, good morning. You probably have
Speaker 21: a pretty simple answer to this question. But we lost
Speaker 21: two trees and had the stumps ground. They were able
Speaker 21: to evacuate most all the sawdust. So now we're just
Speaker 21: left with two piles of yard dirt. So is there
Speaker 21: any is there any best use of that?
Speaker 3: Well, you can do a number of things to it.
Speaker 3: If it were mine, I don't know's If it's mostly chips,
Speaker 3: I would probably use it as a mulch in beds
Speaker 3: and things. It'll decompose away and do that. If it's
Speaker 3: got a lot of soil in it, you could pot
Speaker 3: it up and let it decompose and you would end
Speaker 3: up with a really rich soilmex that could be used
Speaker 3: in a lot of places around the landscape. If you
Speaker 3: don't want to see it sitting there and don't have
Speaker 3: a place to put it like that, then you can
Speaker 3: also try to filter out some of the chips and
Speaker 3: just get the soil out of it. It depends on
Speaker 3: how much trouble you want to go to a lane.
Speaker 3: Tell what I did is I built a little I
Speaker 3: took two by fours and made a little frame that
Speaker 3: sits on top of my wheelbarrow. So a picture a
Speaker 3: capital letter H, except two bars in the middle instead
Speaker 3: of one, and they're separated. So those long ends sit
Speaker 3: on the sides of the wheelbarrow and the box is inside.
Speaker 3: And I put a half inch hardware cloth underneath it.
Speaker 3: That's the stuff they put underneath the rabbit cage for
Speaker 3: the rabbits to hop around on. Half inch and I'll
Speaker 3: use it to screen compost. I'll use it to screen.
Speaker 3: I think you could put those chips in there. You
Speaker 3: set them in. You just take shovelfuls of it, shake
Speaker 3: it around and then dump the stuff out of the screen.
Speaker 3: That's all wood chips, and you can use it around
Speaker 3: your landscape and then the soil you've sifted out. So
Speaker 3: there's a lot of options depending on how much trouble
Speaker 3: you want to go to. But that is it's probably
Speaker 3: good soil, and it's certainly a good mulching top material.
Speaker 21: Well, we have some low spots in the landscaping where
Speaker 21: we've lost trees before and the soil keeps thinking and
Speaker 21: so we could also use that as a fill and periodically, right.
Speaker 3: You could, Yes, you could. The problem is that any
Speaker 3: fill as it decomposes is going to sink down again,
Speaker 3: and that's where screening out the chips and using just
Speaker 3: the soil would be better. And if you use both
Speaker 3: of them, I would pile it up like a picture's
Speaker 3: mound in a low area so now it's a high area,
Speaker 3: and let's say six inches high, because it's going to
Speaker 3: settle down and then it'll be more level when it's
Speaker 3: all said and done, right right, Okay, Yeah, it just
Speaker 3: you know, it really comes down to a lane. How much? Yeah,
Speaker 3: well it comes You said it was going to be simple,
Speaker 3: and I made it complex. But it all comes down
Speaker 3: to how much wood, what percent would what percent soil
Speaker 3: is in that pile?
Speaker 21: If it's fifty fifty, pretty good at getting all the
Speaker 21: wood out, wood chips. I can't even tell you that
Speaker 21: there are wood chips in there?
Speaker 13: They have, is it?
Speaker 21: And they were they were the vacuum was sucking up
Speaker 21: all the sawdust as they ground. Okay, so really pretty
Speaker 21: much what were left with is yard soil.
Speaker 3: All right, Well, there you go. That's that's what I
Speaker 3: would do with it. I still would pile it a
Speaker 3: little higher than level, because anytime you dig up soil
Speaker 3: and loosen it, then it sinks down. It settles, of course,
Speaker 3: and so even if this was one hundred percent soil,
Speaker 3: I would make it just two or three inches higher
Speaker 3: because it is going to settle in.
Speaker 9: All right, Well.
Speaker 3: Thank you so much, skimp, all right, thank you Elene.
Speaker 3: I appreciate the call very much. All Right, folks, well
Speaker 3: we are out of time here today, not time to
Speaker 3: take another call. I do want to remind you of
Speaker 3: a few things coming up On Saturday, August tenth. A
Speaker 3: group called Obahba Organic Horticulture Benefits Alliance is going to
Speaker 3: have their big annual event. And this is quite the
Speaker 3: shindig that's the official term for it, shindig Oba Palooza.
Speaker 3: Doesn't that sound like a shindig Oba palues. This is
Speaker 3: a third annual one. It's an organic fair and workshop.
Speaker 3: It'll be Saturday, August tenth from eight am to three
Speaker 3: point thirty pm. It'll go all day. They're going to
Speaker 3: have all kinds of excellent speakers there. Brad Phillips and
Speaker 3: Arborist will be there. Doctor Mila McManus very into understanding
Speaker 3: health and our bodies and how what we eat affects
Speaker 3: us Chaz Doughdary. Doctor Joe Novak. Doctor Novak, he was
Speaker 3: my vegetable professor when I went through a and m
Speaker 3: Neither Joe or I'll talk about how long ago that was.
Speaker 3: But doctor Novak will be there. You will not find
Speaker 3: anyone that knows more about organic Gardening and Vegetables and
Speaker 3: doctor Novak, Glenn Ols and Diana Liga, John Ferguson from
Speaker 3: Nature's Way Resources. The Man himself will be there, Brianna
Speaker 3: Burns and Diana Wilson, Mike Saram from micro Life Fertilizer,
Speaker 3: Aaron Mills, Chris Christy Doolan. I don't have time to
Speaker 3: go into all these Justin Duncan Doctor Moore, borden Brugen.
Speaker 3: I can't say borden Brugen. H he is the expert
Speaker 3: on eating wild things. What can you eat that is
Speaker 3: in nature?
Speaker 4: You know?
Speaker 11: How do you?
Speaker 3: He's got a website. Oh gosh, it's outstanding. You got
Speaker 3: to go hear the guy. He's very entertaining, extremely knowledgeable.
Speaker 3: The w W two headliners, three different concurrent sessions. I
Speaker 3: mean there's going to be education, education and education on organics.
Speaker 3: Lots of opportunities to network. Obapalooza at the Greater Houston
Speaker 3: United Way on WAW Drive, Saturday, August tenth, from eight
Speaker 3: am to three point thirty pm. Go to obaonline dot
Speaker 3: org for tickets